The Crayon
Owned and edited by William Stillman and John Duran,
a journal devoted to the graphic arts and the literature related to them.” Begun in January, 1855 as a weekly quarto of 16 pages, the journal became a 32-page monthly in 1856; yearly subscriptions could be had for 3 dollars. Mott calls it “
the best art journal of the period”, observing that it was “
broad in scope, handsomely printed” and “
written with a certain authority” (
we will endeavour to lead those whom we may influence to the perception of the Highest Beauty . . . and to prefer that which is true and earnest.”
Not surprisingly,
English Pre-Raphaelitism and its Reception in America
in the Nineteenth Century.