THE GRAPHIC: AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY NEWS PAPER (JULY-DEC 1875)
Year: 1875
Size: 12.4 x 16 inches
Volume no. 12Year: 1875
Size: 31.5 x 40.8 cm (12.4 x 16 inches)
Published by: George C. Leighton, 198 Strand., London.
No. of Engravings: 21 Engravings of India (6 Double Page +15 Full Page)
It carries one of the most sustained pictorial records of Bombay during the Prince of Wales’s tour of India (1875–76), featuring celebrated engravings such as 'Preparations for Illuminating Bombay' (4 December 1875) and 'The Prince of Wales Lunching in the Caves of Elephanta' (11 December 1875).
Founded in 1842, 'The Illustrated London News' pioneered the concept of weekly visual journalism. For the 1875–76 royal progress, it dispatched “special artists” most notably William Simpson whose on-site sketches were swiftly engraved and printed for readers in Britain. The Graphic, the ILN’s principal rival, adopted a similar approach, sending artist-reporters Walter Charles Horsley and Herbert Johnson to record the same events. Because the Prince landed first at Bombay and the city mounted the most elaborate welcomes, this volume preserves an unusually rich sequence of Bombay views within a single six-month issue, making it a key visual archive of the city in the 1870s.
Most of the illustrations were based on first-hand drawings made directly from life, capturing the splendour of illuminations, processions, and ceremonies with remarkable immediacy. Over the seven-month royal tour, Simpson, Horsley, and Johnson produced a continuous flow of images that chronicled every phase of the visit with unprecedented detail.
The Graphic, first published on 4 December 1869 by William Luson Thomas’s company, Illustrated Newspapers Limited, was conceived to rival the 'Illustrated London News'. Its bold and expressive visual style appealed to a wide middle-class readership and exerted immense influence on the art world, admired by figures such as Vincent van Gogh and Hubert von Herkomer. Renamed 'The National Graphic' in April 1932, the paper ceased publication after 3,266 issues.
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
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