The Portfolio

Early contributors included Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897) and Sidney Colvin (1845–1927).

The impetus for the launch of The Portfolio came in the wake of the foundation in Paris of the Société des aquafortistes in 1862, and to a lesser extent from the longer established Etching Club from 1838.

Etchings by many French etchers such as Paul Rajon (1843–1888) and Alfred Brunet-Debaines (1845–1939) were a marked feature of the publication.

[3] The New York Times lavished praise on the publication when, in 1875, it remarked that it could not "eulogize too highly the merits of this periodical in all its departments.

"[4] The late nineteenth-century British author George Gissing wrote in his diary for December 1895 (sic.)