NOTE: THIS IS PART OF THE Magazine! An Illustration of an Arab (?) tribesman preparing his muzzleloader rifle for combat, and Reverse with part of an Illustration concerning Fire in Constantinople from "THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS", London, England, a 18?? Issue.
ITEM 1.) This Sheet includes: '“On the Alert" - From a Painting by Carl Haag - [See Page 608], a full page illustration; Reverse contains part of what may have been a centerspread illustration of a Fire in Constantinople;
PROBABLE DATE: circa 1890; Mainly based on the layout, etc.;
PROBABLE MAGAZINE: Illustrated London News; No Direct Reference on the Sheet; Based on Style, Layout, Content, etc.;
The Full-Page Illustration is: "On the Alert" - From a Painting by Carl Haag; It depicts an Arab (?) tribesman ramroding his muzzle loading rifle (?) while standing next to his resting camel; Engraver not identified;
This is Page 5?? or 6?? of the ?/??/18?? issue of ILN(?);
Reverse, Page 5?? or 6?? has: "Fire in Constantinople" illustration and accompanying article, PARTIALS ONLY; the firemen are using hand pumped equipment to put out a major fire while a massive crowd, including cavalry, look on; Constantinople was then the capital of the Ottoman Empire, now Istanbul in Turkey;
NOTE: I am not qualified to distinguish between the various types of illustrations (copper engraving, Steel Engraving, Wood Engraving, Etching, Lithograph or Photogravure); however, my understanding is that Harper's and other similar publications in this era generally used wood engravings; on request, I will attempt to provide any details of the prints which may help determine the type of print;
This sheet was removed from the newspaper; some very minor foxing and spotting, and edge tears, ; page has been trimmed to the apparent edge of the primary illustration, no loss to the illustration, BUT much of the text and illustration of the reverse is missing; otherwise the articles and illustration are in good condition for its age and suitable for framing; will be shipped flat;,>
Aggregate Print Image / Sheet Sizes, Approximately 9" x 13";
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: "Carl Haag (20 April 1820 – 14 January 1915) was a German-born painter who became a naturalized British citizen, & court painter to the duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He was born in Erlangen (Bavaria), & was trained in the academies at Nuremberg & Munich. Haag practised 1st as an illustrator & as a painter, in oil, of portraits & architectural subjects; but after he settled in England, in 1847, he devoted himself to water colours, & was elected associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1850 & member in 1853. He travelled much, especially in the East, & made a considerable reputation by his firmly drawn & carefully elaborated paintings of Eastern subjects. Towards the end of his professional career Carl Haag quit England & returned to Germany where he died in Oberwesel..";
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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