The Magazine of Art

It included reviews of exhibitions, articles about artists and all branches of the visual arts, as well as some poetry, and was lavishly illustrated by leading wood-engravers of the period such as William Biscombe Gardner.

[2][3][4] Its origins can be traced back to May 1851, when the House of Cassell started publication of a journal devoted to The Great Exhibition of that year.

[5] The Magazine of Art itself started publication on 25 April 1878, the same year as the Exposition Universelle in Paris, and was edited initially by Arthur J. R. Trendell until 1880.

Editorship then passed in turn to Eric Robertson (1880–81), William Ernest Henley (1881–86), Sidney Galpin (1886) and Marion Harry Spielmann (1886–1904), who also edited The Pall Mall Gazette.

[3] He engaged eminent artists and literary figures to write for the journal including R. L. Stevenson, Richard Jefferies, J. Comyns Carr and others, and the quality of the wood engravings was further improved.