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Two version of the first ever photograph of a live okapi: A one-month-old calf who was captured on the North Eastern border of the Congo forest
By: Signor Ribotti at Bambili OR Monsieur Lamboray at Angu
From: The Illustrated London News / Monograph of the Okapi
1907
#okapi#ungulate#mammal#1907#1900s#signor ribotti#monsieur lamboray#the illustrated london news#monograph of the okapi
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此物出在浙江處州府青田縣數十成羣人禦之化為血水兵官持砲擊之刀箭不能傷現有示諭軍民人守有能剿除者從重獎賞此怪近因官兵逐急旋即落水逢人便食真奇怪哉
"Chinese Caricature of an English Sailor (in war of 1839)"
The Illustrated London News, April 25, 1857.
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Joseph Middleton Jopling (1831-1884), 'Fluffy', ''The Illustrated London News'', July 16, 1864
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#joseph middleton jopling#british artists#the illustrated london news#fluffy#engravings#vintage art#vintage illustration
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Eighteen-Forties Friday: 'Polka is certainly an epidemic'
There was a furore about the Polka; not only in dancing it, but there was an absolute mania for naming articles of dress after it. Ladies wore Polka hats, Polka jackets and Polka boots, and men had Polka ties. Jullien published a new Polka about every fortnight, and the whole people were Polka mad.
— John Ashton, Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign (Internet Archive)
Illustrations of the "The Drawing-Room Polka" in The Illustrated London News, May 11 1844 (HathiTrust). The article begins:
We are much gratified in being enabled to lay before our readers an accurate description of the véritable, or Drawing-room Polka, as danced at Almack's, and at the balls of the nobility and gentry in this country.
Much emphasis is placed on the dance being elegant and quiet: "there is no stamping of heels or toes, or kicking of legs in sharp angles forward." (Well, maybe in Bohemia, but it is "inadmissible into the salons of London or Paris".)
The novelist and Royal Navy officer Captain Marryat wrote to his sister-in-law about the polka craze in 1844:
That polka is certainly an epidemic. I was at Raynham before the girls came down, and the Townshends were dancing it there and gave me a lesson. Since the girls have been here it is polka upstairs and downstairs, in the dining-room before and after dinner, and I am pulled up to dance it every hour. They have commenced it in the kitchen, and one or two of the maids are pretty expert.
— The Life and Letters of Captain Frederick Marryat, edited by Florence Marryat.
Carlotta Grisi and Jules Perrot in La Polka, Her Majesty's Theatre, circa 1845 (Victoria & Albert Museum)
#Eighteen-Forties Friday#1840s#1844#polka#social dancing#victorian#early victorian era#dance#the illustrated london news#1845#frederick marryat#fashion#things your 1840s man can do: dance the polka
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#OTD in 1845 – The Illustrated London News reported on the early stages of An Gorta Mór that was to decimate Ireland in the coming years.
“Accounts received from different parts of Ireland show that the disease in the potato crop is extending far and wide, and causing great alarm amongst the peasantry. Mr. John Chester, of Kilscorne House, in Magshole, Co Louth, in a letter to the Dublin Evening Post, states that he has a field of twenty acres of potatoes, which, up to the 3rd instant, had been perfectly dry and sound, when they…
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#An Gorta Mor#Co. Louth#Dublin Post#England#Famine#Hunger#Ireland#Potato Blight#Roscommon An Gorta Mór Memorial#The Illustrated London News
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For those of you who have watched The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (and cried a little) - I came across some of his original illustrations today, when I was looking through the 1887 issues of The Illustrated London News.
And they are so adorable! Thought you all might enjoy some gorgeous cats (and dogs)!
Such a handsome boi
I love how he even included a cat in this tiny picture! Like ... this is an article about a house. XD
Why is he so smol <3
#the electrical life of louis wain#louis wain#benedict cumberbatch#illustration#the illustrated london news#1887#cats#dogs
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Oil painting of Arthur Balfour, by Hungarian Jewish artist Philip de László (d. 1937), 1914, reproduced in The Illustrated London News, vol. 165, no. 4445, 5 July 1924. (In the public domain.)
Downloaded from the Internet Archive and cropped to remove theoretically copyrighted text.
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The Illustrated London News put it this way:
The savages committed certain outrages, on which the native police, under a white officer, allied forth and made so tremendous an example in the way of shooting, that though "everybody in the colony is delighted," we at home should be rather glad to be sure (which the story sis not quite make us) that the vengeance fell not only heavily but in the right place.
"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr
#book quotes#killing for country#david marr#nonfiction#the illustrated london news#newspaper#journalism#indigenous australians#aboriginal australian#native police#shooting#death#police violence#police brutality
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Impulse buys at the Sunday flower market (Started as a plein air photo study and became a little story)
#simon snow#baz will be thrilled with their new roommate#carry on#london#simon snow series#plein air#my art#visual development#illustration
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mourning jewellery button badges ✨️💀🎩🌿
#illustration#artist on tumblr#dark academia#victorian aesthetic#whOO im working hard on mcm london prep and new items and these are part of all that!!#im v v happy with how they turned out#honestly i want an authentic piece of mourning jewellery so much but this will tide me over 😌
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The Illustrated London News
No. 62.—Vol. III.
For the week ending Saturday, July 8, 1843.
Page 21
Opium packages.
An opium smoker.
Opium smuggling
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The okapi "Tele" who was captured as a calf in 1927, reared on goat's milk and vegetables, and later transported to Antwerp Zoo where she would live until 1943. Note the bell collar she's wearing in this photo.
By: Unknown photographer
From: The Illustrated London News
1929
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A collage of The Record Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria — 63 years, 216 days.
The collage shows the Heir Apparent (Edward VII) - Heir Presumptive (George V) - David (Edward VIII).
Also, her other living children when attaining this historical reign. There are 8 miniatures of Queen Victoria.
Credit: Illustrated London News (special edition)
#Queen Victoria#Prince Albert#Edward VII#George V#Edward VIII#British Royal Family#Illustrated London News#reign#collage
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Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882), ‘Our Christmas Dream’, ''The Illustrated London News'', Jan. 4, 1845
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#hablot knight browne#phiz#english artists#the illustrated london news#christmas#christmas dream#vintage art#vintage illustration
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Since today is Trafalgar Day, and also beloved popular weekly event Eighteen-Forties Friday, what better time to celebrate Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, which was constructed between 1840 and 1843?
Nelson's monumental statue was displayed for the public in 1843 at ground level before its installation at the top of the column.
The Illustrated London News, November 4, 1843 (Google Books):
The statue of Nelson—the hero of Trafalgar—having been completed, has been for a short space made visible to the public from a nearer point of view than many of them are destined to have of it in future. It has been exhibited on the surface of terra firma, previous to its elevation to the summit of the column, henceforth Nelson's Column, in Trafalgar square—a locality which, were it not for the common-place character of the front of the National Gallery, would become the finest open space in the metropolis.
From the perspective of over 200 years past the Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson's uniform looks dashing and heroic, the stuff of period dramas set in the Age of Sail. But to the Illustrated London News writer, it was all too recent, even in the 1840s:
Those who have seen his "Nelson"—colossal in size—the features true to nature—a portrait in stone, not an idealism of a hero—the costume, that of an English Admiral, "in his habit as he lived," and partaking of the every-day character, which is the great difficulty of all artists, when they have to deal with the costume of the nineteenth century in any shape—a costume which no skill can elevate to dignity, or transform to the graceful — will have received, probably, a mingled impression.
The irony is that this 1840s journalist thinks Nelson's naval uniform is too modern for the heroic treatment, when Nelson was not fashion-forward in his own time period and had an 18th century style in the eyes of his contemporaries. The future William IV, then Prince William, is quoted with his opinions on Nelson's old-fashioned appearance in Amy Miller's book Dressed to Kill:
He appeared to be the merest boy of a captain I ever beheld, and his dress was worthy of notice. He had on a full laced uniform; his lank unpowdered hair was tied in a stiff Hessian tail of extraordinary length; the old-fashioned flaps of his waistcoat added to the general quaintness of his figure, and produced an appearance which particularly attracted my attention, for I had never seen anything like it before, neither could I imagine who it was or what he came about.
#Eighteen-Forties Friday#trafalgar day#horatio nelson#battle of trafalgar#nelson's column#age of sail#naval history#1840s#the illustrated london news#trafalgar square#dressed to kill#naval uniform#william iv#fashion#imagine being from the 1840s and calling nelson tacky
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