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[[File:Potato Lifting (from "The Portfolio") MET DP861958 (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[William Strang]], ''Potato Lifting'', published in ''The Portfolio'' in October 1882.]]


'''''The Portfolio''''' was a [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] monthly art magazine published in London from 1870 to 1893.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hamerton|first=Philip Gilbert|date=1870–1893|title=The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical.|journal=The Portfolio|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000502831|pages=248 no|issn=2043-572X}}</ref> It was founded by [[Philip Gilbert Hamerton]] and promoted contemporary [[printmaking]], especially [[etching]], and was important in the British [[Etching Revival]]. Early contributors included [[Francis Turner Palgrave]] (1824&ndash;1897) and [[Sidney Colvin]] (1845&ndash;1927).
{{one source|date=September 2018}}

'''''The Portfolio''''' was a [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] monthly art magazine published in London from 1870 to 1893.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hamerton|first=Philip Gilbert|date=1870-1893|title=The Portfolio: an artistic periodical.|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000502831|pages=248 no.|issn=2043-572X}}</ref> It was founded by [[Philip Gilbert Hamerton]] and promoted contemporary [[printmaking]], especially [[etching]]. Early contributors included Joseph Beavington Atkinson (1822&ndash;1886), [[Francis Turner Palgrave]] (1824&ndash;1897) and [[Sidney Colvin]] (1845&ndash;1927).


==History==
==History==
The mid-nineteenth century in France and Britain saw a rise in the interest in etching. Hamerton had spent the 1860s in France with his French wife, Eugénie. 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 Adolphe Rajon|Paul Rajon]] (1843&ndash;1888) and Benjamin Damman (1835&ndash;1921) were a marked feature of the publication. ''[[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. It is, without question, the most beautiful in regard to illustration which emanates from the press".<ref>'New Publications', ''[[The New York Times]]'', 23 March 1875, p.10.</ref> In a survey of the etching revival in 1878 the ''[[The Magazine of Art|Magazine of Art]]'' highlighted the centrality of Hamerton and his monthly magazine which had "so ably and unceasingly pleaded the cause of etching" in Britain.<ref>[[Marcus Bourne Huish]], 'Etching in England: I', ''Magazine of Art'', 1878, pp.146&ndash;48 (148).</ref>
The mid-nineteenth century in France and Britain saw a rise in the interest in etching. Hamerton had spent the 1860s in France with his French wife, Eugénie. 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 Adolphe Rajon|Paul Rajon]] (1843&ndash;1888) and [[Alfred-Louis Brunet-Debaines|Alfred Brunet-Debaines]] (1845&ndash;1939) were a marked feature of the publication. Indeed, ''The Standard'' remarked in 1874 that the publication's "speciality, as probably most people know, is the etchings with which it is adorned."<ref>''[[Evening Standard|The Standard]]'', 23 December 1874, p.5.</ref> Rajon published twelve etchings in the periodical before his untimely death.<ref>'Twelve etchings contributed to the 'Portfolio' by Paul Adolphe Rajon: with Memoir and Notes by F. G. Stephens', ''Athenæum'', 23 March 1889, [https://books.google.com/books?id=qcU5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA381 p. 381]</ref> ''[[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. It is, without question, the most beautiful in regard to illustration which emanates from the press."<ref>'New Publications', ''[[The New York Times]]'', 23 March 1875, p.10.</ref>

The late nineteenth-century British author [[George Gissing]] wrote in his diary for December 1895 (sic.) that he took the magazine for his son, because of its good pictures.<ref>Coustillas, Pierre ed. ''London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian England: the Diary of George Gissing, Novelist'' (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1978), p.396.</ref> In a survey of the [[etching revival]] in 1878 the ''[[The Magazine of Art|Magazine of Art]]'' highlighted the centrality of Hamerton and his monthly magazine which had "so ably and unceasingly pleaded the cause of etching" in Britain.<ref>[[Marcus Bourne Huish]], 'Etching in England: [Part] I', ''Magazine of Art'', 1878, pp.146&ndash;48 (148).</ref>


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Latest revision as of 06:19, 21 June 2024

The Portfolio
KategorienVictorian art
FrequencyMonthly
PublisherSeeley & Co; Seeley, Jackson & Halliday
First issue1870
Final issue1893
LandVereinigtes Königreich
Based inLondon
William Strang, Potato Lifting, published in The Portfolio in October 1882.

The Portfolio was a British monthly art magazine published in London from 1870 to 1893.[1] It was founded by Philip Gilbert Hamerton and promoted contemporary printmaking, especially etching, and was important in the British Etching Revival. Early contributors included Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897) and Sidney Colvin (1845–1927).

History

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The mid-nineteenth century in France and Britain saw a rise in the interest in etching. Hamerton had spent the 1860s in France with his French wife, Eugénie. 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. Indeed, The Standard remarked in 1874 that the publication's "speciality, as probably most people know, is the etchings with which it is adorned."[2] Rajon published twelve etchings in the periodical before his untimely death.[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. It is, without question, the most beautiful in regard to illustration which emanates from the press."[4]

The late nineteenth-century British author George Gissing wrote in his diary for December 1895 (sic.) that he took the magazine for his son, because of its good pictures.[5] In a survey of the etching revival in 1878 the Magazine of Art highlighted the centrality of Hamerton and his monthly magazine which had "so ably and unceasingly pleaded the cause of etching" in Britain.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Hamerton, Philip Gilbert (1870–1893). "The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical". The Portfolio: 248 no. ISSN 2043-572X.
  2. ^ The Standard, 23 December 1874, p.5.
  3. ^ 'Twelve etchings contributed to the 'Portfolio' by Paul Adolphe Rajon: with Memoir and Notes by F. G. Stephens', Athenæum, 23 March 1889, p. 381
  4. ^ 'New Publications', The New York Times, 23 March 1875, p.10.
  5. ^ Coustillas, Pierre ed. London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian England: the Diary of George Gissing, Novelist (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1978), p.396.
  6. ^ Marcus Bourne Huish, 'Etching in England: [Part] I', Magazine of Art, 1878, pp.146–48 (148).