; some pages has been trimmed slightly, no loss to the illustration, BUT some of the text at the top of the reverse is missing; Otherwise the primary articles and illustrations are in good condition for its age and suitable for framing; will be shipped flat;
Aggregate Print Image / Sheet Sizes, Approximately 11" x 16" or smaller;
The primary item was part of the collection of Henry J. Hauschild Jr., who billed himself as a “Physiognomist – Bibliopolist – Cognoscente di Eccellentissimoâ€, and was the very proud owner of the world famous "Nose Gallery†at “The Oldest House†in Victoria, Texas; It is believed that earlier this item was part of the magazine and newspaper collection of Edwin Hunt Frost of Yonkers, New York;
HISTORICAL NOTE: "The Fleet Review is a British tradition, where the monarch reviews the massed Royal Navy. It allegedly dates back to the 1400. It is not held at regular intervals (only 44 have been held to date), & originally occurred when the fleet was mobilised for war, or for a 'show of strength' to discourage potential enemies. However, since the 19th century they have often been held for the coronation or for special royal jubilees (indeed, since Edward VIII it has been regularly held at each coronation) - this tradition may have come to an end with the cancellation of the 2002 Review for Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee on cost grounds. Also, since the 19th century, it increasingly often includes delegates from other national navies - as at the International Fleet Review of 2005. Needing a natural large, sheltered & deep anchorage, it usually occurs in the Solent off Spithead (although, Southend, Torbay, the Firth of Clyde as well as some overseas ports have also hosted reviews - in the examples below, the venue is Spithead unless otherwise noted). A list follows of fleet reviews since the 14th century.
June 1346 - Edward III, before sailing to war with France
1415 - Generally acknowledged as the 1st fleet review on record, by Henry V, at Southampton, before sailing for his first French campaign that ended in the Battle of Agincourt
May 1662, Charles II;
February 1693, William III and Mary II, after the Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue
March 1700, on Peter the Great's visit to Britain, a show of strength
1773, King George III set out from Kew, in a Royal coach with scarlet outriders, for what some call the 1st formal Royal Review. On his arrival he was saluted by a "triple discharge of cannon," & proceeded to the dockyard where admirals & captains were assembled, each with his barge, to escort the King to Spithead. They had dressed their crews in fancy colours, each to his own taste (at that time there was no uniform naval uniform), whilst they themselves were resplendent in the full dress designed for them by George II in 1748. The ships on show were those that had fought the French in the Seven Years' War & were soon to join the War of American Independence, & were led by HMS Barfleur, of 90 guns, built only 5 years before.
May 1778, George III, before France joined American War of Independence
1781
June 1794, after Glorious First of June
1814, the last to consist solely of sailing ships. It was to celebrate the Treaty of Paris (1814), & to show the Allied Sovereigns "the tremendous naval armaments which has swept from the ocean the fleets of France & Spain & secured to Britain the domain of the sea." 15 ships of the line & 31 frigates were present, all of them veterans of the Napoleonic Wars. It was reviewed not by George III, but by the Prince Regent
September 1820, George IV, 1st Coronation Review. One ship in attendance was HMS Beagle, later made famous by Charles Darwin.
March 1842, her 1st, held by herself & Prince Albert as a "Grand Naval Review." The Queen on this occasion endeared herself to her sailors, drinking a mess basin of grog, & liking it!
1844, May - visit of the King of Saxony; & October, on the visit of Tsar Nicholas I, King Louis-Philippe of France & Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, both were a show of strength
June 1845, inspecting the experimental squadron, from the new HMY Victoria and Albert. The Board of Admiralty attended in their steam yacht, the Black Eagle. Some place this not 1814 as the last time that a Royal Review consisted only of sailing ships, & nearly the last time that the Queen could watch HMS Trafalgar's men run aloft & set the sails "with feline agility & astonishing celerity."
August 1853, fleet mobilisation for Crimean War, including for the 1st time steam screw ships of the line.
10 March 1854. Wary of a Russian break out into the North Sea, due to the numbers of their ships in the Baltic Sea, the British Admiralty brought together a force to contain them. This 1st division of the Baltic fleet was commanded by Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier. Napier's task was to find naval recruits & train them as quickly as possible. From the screw yacht-tender, HMS Fairy, & two months before her 35th birthday (which it was perhaps also intended to commemorate), Queen Victoria reviewed Napier's fleet at Spithead, shortly before it set sail, including (on 10 March 1854) a review of the first part of the fleet to set sail only eighteen days before Britain declared war on Russia. According to reports in the London Illustrated News (which printed a special edition for the occasion, with drawings of various scenes from the day of the Review), Fairy reviewed the fleet as it steamed up a path created by the ships anchored on each side, then a day later led the fleet out of Spithead as it began its journey to the Baltic.
April 1856, of the Baltic fleet on its return. 1st recorded example of the evening illumination of the fleet. Showed lessons learnt from the Crimean War, with the 1st of the ironclad ships present in the form of 4 1,500-ton floating batteries. Over 100 gunboats were present, "puffing about like locomotive engines with wisps of white steam trailing from their funnels."
August 1865, on visit of the French fleet
July 1867, held for Abd-ul-Aziz, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, & his Viceroy of Egypt, Ismail of Egypt. For the 1st time every ship flew the White Ensign, after the dissolution of the old Red, White & Blue Squadrons. New designs were the five-masted HMS Minotaur with her powerful broadside, & the graceful 14-knot ironclad sister-ships HMS Warrior & HMS Black Prince.
May/June 1876, for the visit of Nasser-al-Din Shah(1848–1896), the Shah of Persia
August 1878, of the reserve squadron
July 1887, Golden Jubilee. Notable for the appearance of a Nordenfelt submarine (though the first RN Submarine would be Holland 1 20 years later)
August 1889, on the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II & his Admiral von Tirpitz, a show of strength
August 1891, on visit of the French fleet
August 1896, on visit of MPs & Li Hung Chang
June 1897, Diamond Jubilee, notable for being presided over by the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) since she was too frail to attend in person, & for the appearance of the Turbinia.
August 1899, her last, notable for being presided over by the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) since she was too frail to attend in person, & for the visit of the German Squadron.
August 1902, Coronation Review, the 1st time in the modern era that a review was used to mark the coronation
August 1905, visit of the French fleet
August 1907, review of the reconstituted Home Fleet
12 June 1909, review of Home Fleet & Atlantic Fleet, including HMS Invincible
2 July 1909, Southend, including HMS Invincible
June 1911, Coronation Fleet Review. USS Delaware sailed 4 June from America & appeared at the review from 19 June to 28 June.
May or July 1912, for Houses of Parliament, at Weymouth, featured the 1st take-off of a plane from a ship which was underway - on 4 May Commander Charles Samson became the 1st man to take off from a ship which was underway. He did this in a Short S27 biplane whilst HMS Hibernia steamed at 10.5 knots (19 km/h).
July 1914, fleet mobilisation for World War I. No fewer than 59 battleships & 17 seaplanes
1919, at Southend, to mark the end of World War I
July 1924, including HMS Warspite
16 July 1935, Silver Jubilee; 160 warships including HMS Revenge. D L Davenport, at the time a young cadet serving on board HMS Iron Duke (he later went onto a successful naval career, eventually reaching the rank of Rear Admiral), noted his impressions of this event in his diary: “Turned out at 0545 & scrubbed focsle…after breakfast we gave all the brightwork a final polish & generally cleaned up… after lunch we fell in on deck ... All the ships with saluting guns fired a royal salute of 21 guns the noise was not as bad as we were led to expect. But the smoke screened most of the ships for some minutes… After tea ‘Clean Lower Deck’ was sounded & we had to fall in for manning ship my position on Y Turret grid on the Quarter Deck was an excellent one as we could see the yacht approaching… as the V&A approached the band played ‘God Save the King’ & the guard presented arms in the Royal Salute. When the King was halfway past we gave 3 cheers. You could just see the King on the Bridge, Saluting …About ½ hour later we fell in again as he passed the other side. After supper we watched the illuminations… after half hour all the lights were turned off & red flares were lit on deck, each held by a sailor at the guardrail. These did not look very good except for the 1st few seconds… the ships remained illuminated for the rest of the time until midnight... We turned in about 2345 very tired.
Thursday May 20, 1937 - Coronation Fleet Review. External link After the small beginnings of naval airpower at the 1912 review, five carriers were present this time. Described by one naval officer in a letter to a friend -b"The day was quite as bad as I feared but my sisters are insistent that they enjoyed it all"; It was also the occasion of the infamous "Woodrooffe Incident" in the BBC Radio coverage (known by the phrase 'The Fleet's Lit Up!'); HMY Victoria and Albert III took part in this review, her 2nd & last before being scrapped in 1939. The sole U.S. Navy representative was USS New York, which had brought Admiral Hugh Rodman, the President's personal representative for the coronation, across the Atlantic.
9 August 1939, including HMS Revenge
May 1944, in secret, of the D-Day invasion fleet - also, ironically, the largest review to date (800 vessels, ranging from capital vessels to small minesweeper & landing craft).
15 June 1953, Coronation Fleet Review, coronation of Elizabeth II. The 1st post-war review, here could be seen the ongoing technical innovations the war had produced. One row consisted largely of Battle class destroyers, many of which were withdrawn soon after: HMS Finisterre, HMS St. James, HMS Cadiz, HMS Solebay, HMS Corunna, HMS Aisne, HMS Barrosa, HMS Agincourt, HMS Camperdown, HMS St. Kitts, HMS Barfleur, HMS Crossbow; Also present were HMS Caistor Castle, representing the Reserve Fleet, & HMS Carisbrooke Castle.
May 1957 Review of the fleet off Invergordon Scotland.
1965, partial review at the Tail of the Bank on Firth of Clyde
May 1969 Elizabeth II - NATO review (NATO's 20th anniversary), Spithead - 64 ships from the 11 NATO countries participated: British contingent included HMS Phoebe & HMS Dido; US - USS Wasp,
June 1977, Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II. HMS Blake & HMS Tiger both appeared. Many Leander class frigates took part - HMS Cleopatra (positioned in the middle of HM ships Zulu & Arethusa), Danae, HMS Euryalus, HMS Apollo, HMS Phoebe, HMS Hermione, HMS Ariadne, HMS Charybdis, HMS Naiad, HMS Arethusa, HMS Scylla, HMS Berwick, HMS Andromeda, HMS Galatea, HMS Jupiter & HMS Diomede. Also present were HMS Antelope, HMS Tartar & HMS Torquay. USS California represented the US Navy.
1993 - Commemoration of Battle of the Atlantic anniversary, HMS Cornwall as flagship of the event (off North Wales)
1994 - D-Day 50th anniversary, including HMS Edinburgh
28 June 2005, International Fleet Review for Trafalgar 200, also held in lieu of the 2002 Golden Jubilee Review, which was cancelled on cost grounds;"
HISTORICAL NOTE: "As in the early history of most newspapers, there was a period when the success of The Illustrated London News was by no means assured; for although 26,000 copies of the 1st number were disposed of, there was a great falling off in the sale of the 2nd & subsequent numbers. Mr. Ingram, however, was determined to make his property a success, & one that is still spoken of as a brilliant stroke of journalistic enterprise. He sent to every clergyman in the country a copy of the number containing illustrations of the installation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, & by this means secured many new subscribers. The 1st volume of the paper ended with the close of 1842, & with the new year several improvements were introduced. Henry Cockton, whose "Valentine Vox" was the success of 1840, contributed a story called "A Romance of Real Life," & stories by Thomas Miller ("The Basket Maker") & others followed. It is claimed by Mr. Mason Jackson that this "was the 1st attempt to infuse a new interest into newspaper literature by the introduction of fiction." The circulation by the end of the 1st year is said to have reached the high figure of 66,000 copies weekly; & the 1st year of the papers existence was celebrated by the publication of a double-number mainly illustrated by Gilbert, Harvey, & Kenny Meadows. When The Illustrated London News was started, there were very few draughtsmen on wood whose services were available for such a publication. Most of these were employed in book illustrations, & their style of drawing was not suited for rapid reproduction in a newspaper. Foremost among "the black-and-white men" of the day were William Harvey, Kenny Meadows, W. B. Scott, William Dix, G. F. Sargent, W. H. Prior (the last two being landscape & architectural artists exclusively), John Gilbert, George & Robert Cruikshank, John Leech, Alfred Forrester ("Crowquill"), & S. Williams. Some of these men as we have seen, early devoted their talents to the service of the new paper, & it gradually attracted other artists of repute; notably George Thomas (elder brother of Mr. W. L. Thomas, the manager of The Graphic), Birket Foster, E. Duncan, Dodson, J. L. Williams, son of S. Williams, a clever architectural draughtsman & engraver who executed such subjects as Barry's new Palace of Westminster, T. Beech, who used to copy old & modern pictures, L. Huard, a Belgian figure draughtsman, Harrison Weir, & many more. Among the early literary contributors were Mark Lemon, Stirling Coyne, & Henry, Horace, & Augustus Mayhew. Howard Staunton was the 1st editor of that chess column which has always been a "feature" of The Illustrated London News. In 1847 & 1848 Mr. W. J. Linton was the chief engraver, & the work he contributed to the paper in those years has not been surpassed at any later period in its history. In 1848, Dr. Charles Mackay, the veteran poet & journalist, succeeded to the literary & political editorship, & in 1852 he took the entire management & control of the paper. Under him worked for many years the late John Timbs, author of "The Curiosities of London," & many another excellent piece of paste & scissors work....";
HISTORICAL NOTE: "The Illustrated London News was the world's 1st illustrated weekly newspaper. Founded in 1842, it was published weekly until 1971. Printer & newsagent Herbert Ingram moved from Nottingham to London in early 1842. Inspired by how the Weekly Chronicle always sold more copies when it featured illustrations, he had the idea of publishing a weekly newspaper which would contain pictures in every edition. He originally considered having it concentrate on crime, as per the later Illustrated Police News, but his collaborator, engraver Henry Vizetelly, instead convinced him that a newspaper which covered more general news would be more successful. In association with Mark Lemon, the editor of Punch, as his chief adviser, Ingram rented an office, located artists & reporters, & employed as his editor the writer Frederick William Naylor Bayley (1808-1853), former editor of the National Omnibus. The 1st edition of The Illustrated London News appeared on 14 May 1842. It contained 16 pages & 32 wood engravings, & covered the current war in Afghanistan, a train crash in France, a steam-boat accident on the Chesapeake, a survey of the candidates for the US presidential election, in addition to length crime reports, stage & book reviews, & three pages of advertisements. Costing sixpence, the 1st edition sold 26,000 copies. Despite this initial success, there was a falling off in the 2nd & subsequent numbers. However, Herbert Ingram was determined to make his paper a success, & sent every clergyman in the country a copy of the edition which contained illustrations of the installation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, & by this means secured a great many new subscribers. Its circulation soon rose to 40,000 & by the end of its first year reached 60,000. In 1851, after the newspaper published Joseph Paxton's designs for the Crystal Palace before even Prince Albert had seen them, the circulation achieved 130,000. In 1852, when it produced a special edition covering the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, sales rose to 150,000, while in 1855, mainly due to the paper reproducing some of Roger Fenton's pioneering photographs of the Crimean War (& also due to the abolition of the Stamp Act which taxed newspapers), it sold 200,000 copies per week. By 1863 The Illustrated London News was selling over 300,000 copies every week, enormous figures in comparison to other British newspapers of the time. Competitors appeared but did not last long; Andrew Spottiswoode's Pictorial Times lost £20,000 before it was sold to Ingram, while Henry Vizetelly, who had left Ingram to found the rival Pictorial Times, eventually sold it to Ingram, who closed it down. Herbert Ingram died on 8 September 1860 in a paddle-steamer accident on Lake Michigan, & he was succeeded as proprietor by his youngest son, William, who in turn was succeeded by his son, Bruce Ingram in 1900. The Illustrated London News was published weekly until 1971, when it became a monthly. From 1989, it was bimonthly, & then quarterly. The magazine is no longer published, but the Illustrated London News Group still exists. It produces in-house magazines & websites, & offers consultancy services, in addition to owning the archive of the Illustrated London News. The 1st generation of draughtsmen & engravers included Sir John Gilbert, Birket Foster, & George Cruikshank among the former, & W. J. Linton, Ebenezer Landells & George Thomas among the latter. Regular literary contributors included Douglas Jerrold, Richard Garnett & Shirley Brooks. Illustrators & artists included Mabel Lucie Attwell, E. H. Shepherd, Kate Greenaway, W. Heath Robinson & his brother Charles Robinson, George E. Studdy, David Wright, Melton Prior, Frederic Villiers, Edmund Blampied, Frank Reynolds, Lawson Wood, H. M. Bateman, Bruce Bairnsfather, C. E. Turner, R. Caton Woodville, A. Forestier, Fortunino Matania & Louis Wain. Writers & journalists included Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, George Augustus Sala, J. M. Barrie, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Arthur Bryant & Tim Beaumont (who wrote on food). Editors: 1842: Frederick William Naylor Bayley, 1848: John Timbs, 1852: Charles Mackay, 1859: John Lash, 1891: Clement Shorter, 1900: Bruce Ingram, 1963: Hugh Ingram, 1965: Timothy Green, 1966: John Kisch, 1970: James Bishop, 1995: Mark Palmer.";
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