Galleries: index · 
· 
This site is in danger of going away; please consider the Donate link above...
Galleries: index · ·
![[picture: Front Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-359x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover]")
Images from The Magazine of Art. Illustrated (c. 1878), published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris and New York.
This was a monthly periodical, or magazine, that ran from 1878 to 1948; later volumes included colour plates. The volume that i have is listed as Volume 3 (Volume III) at archive.org.
I have marked these images as being in the public domain, but I am actually not certain if this is correct in all cases. You have been warned!
Title: Magazine of Art Illustrated
Published by: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.
Date: 1878
Total items: 35
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: St. George and the Dragon]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt/wm/big/337-St.-George-and-the-Dragon-q75-158x200.jpg "[picture: St. George and the Dragon]")
![[picture: Mirror-Frame (A Wood Carving by Panciera Besarel, of Venice)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt/wm/big/264-Mirror-Frame-Panciera-Besarel-q75-152x200.jpg "[picture: Mirror-Frame (A Wood Carving by Panciera Besarel, of Venice)]")
Mirror-Frame (A Wood Carving by Panciera Besarel, of Venice)
[A] mirror-frame by a Venetian wood-carver named Panciera Besarel, whose work exhibits more character and plasticity than perhaps any other Italian that could be named. (p. 265) [more...] [$]
![[picture: Initial letter T with cherubs]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt/wm/big/392-initial-letter-t-cherubs-q75-200x200.jpg "[picture: Initial letter T with cherubs]")
![[picture: Decorative Initial T With Dragons]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt/wm/big/375-initial-letter-t-with-dragons-q90-202x200.jpg "[picture: Decorative Initial T With Dragons]")
Decorative Initial T With Dragons
An initial used for a drop cap (drop capital, or decorative initial) in this 1880 book. The initial is a letter “T” and has two dragons in it. It is signed with a monogram LFD, [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Letter I with fairy, coloured]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt/wm/big/270-initial-letter-i-with-fairy-cupid-coloured-126x200.jpg "[picture: Letter I with fairy, coloured]")
I took this decorative capital “I” and coloured it. You could easily change the colours of course, in an image editing program. [more...] [$]
Note: If you got here from a search engine and don’t see what you were looking for, it might have moved onto a different page within this gallery.
