JAMES S. VIRTUE, PRINTER, CITY ROAD, LONDON.
On the First of every Month, Price 2s. 6d.,
THE ART-JOURNAL:
A RECORD OF THE FINE ARTS, THE ARTS INDUSTRIAL,
AND THE
ARTS OF DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE.
Each Part Illustrated with Splendid Steel Engravings and Woodcuts.
With the year 1862 will be commenced in the “Art-Journal,”
A SERIES OF SELECTED PICTURES
(THE WORKS OF BRITISH PAINTERS)
FROM THE GALLERIES AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
OF GREAT BRITAIN.
It is designed to succeed the “Royal Gallery” and the “Vernon Gallery;” and, there can be no doubt, will be superior in interest to either. In the “Vernon Gallery” are many pictures not calculated for engraving; but they were necessarily included in the published work, in order to redeem a pledge given to Mr. Vernon, to publish the whole of his gallery bequeathed to the Nation; while, in engraving the “Royal Gallery” it was considered necessary, in order to represent somewhat duly its varied contents, to introduce examples of some of the old masters, in which the collections are exceedingly rich, although engravings from them were not likely to be as extensively popular as prints from modern works.
In the series now announced, no such restriction or difficulty can arise: the power of selection will be almost unlimited; and the result will depend on the taste and judgment that dictate its contents.
Some of these selections have been made from public galleries, others from large and important collections, but the greater number have been obtained from the comparatively small, though rich and varied, collections of private gentlemen—“the merchant princes” more especially, who have, of late years, been the chief patrons of British Art—whose wealth has been liberally expended in elevating British Art to its present state of high prosperity.
LONDON: JAMES S. VIRTUE, CITY ROAD & IVY LANE.
THE ART-JOURNAL
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE
OF
THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
OF 1862.
EDITED BY S. C. HALL, ESQ., F.S.A., &c.
An “Illustrated Catalogue of the International Exhibition of 1862” will be issued with the Art-Journal, in eight Monthly parts of that work—each part consisting of twenty-four illustrated pages containing about one hundred and twenty engravings.
No extra charge will be made for the Art-Journal containing such Illustrated Catalogue. Nor will any payment be required for the introduction—with critical and explanatory notices—of any object of Art engraved; the proprietors of that Work believing it to be their first duty to extend, as widely as possible, the knowledge to be derived from the Exhibition, the instruction it is certain to afford, and the example and encouragement held out thereby to producers of meritorious works.
Manufacturers and the public may rest assured that by unceasing efforts, a judicious and liberal expenditure, and due exercise of the judgment and taste that result from experience, such an Illustrated Work will be produced, by the combined efforts of proprietors, editor, artists, and contributors, as cannot fail to be extremely useful, not alone in Great Britain, but throughout the World. It will be a report of progress, a volume of suggestions, a teacher from the lessons of many master-minds, and an enduring reward to those who labour for renown as well as for the ordinary recompense that is expected to accompany desert.