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.