Item #26133 Australian images from The Illustrated Times, the Pictorial Times and other British periodicals, as well as North American periodicals, including Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Harper's Weekly and others.
Australian images from The Illustrated Times, the Pictorial Times and other British periodicals, as well as North American periodicals, including Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Harper's Weekly and others.
Australian images from The Illustrated Times, the Pictorial Times and other British periodicals, as well as North American periodicals, including Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Harper's Weekly and others.
Australian images from The Illustrated Times, the Pictorial Times and other British periodicals, as well as North American periodicals, including Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Harper's Weekly and others.
Australian images from The Illustrated Times, the Pictorial Times and other British periodicals, as well as North American periodicals, including Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Harper's Weekly and others.
Australian images from The Illustrated Times, the Pictorial Times and other British periodicals, as well as North American periodicals, including Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Harper's Weekly and others.
Australian images from The Illustrated Times, the Pictorial Times and other British periodicals, as well as North American periodicals, including Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Harper's Weekly and others.
Australian images from The Illustrated Times, the Pictorial Times and other British periodicals, as well as North American periodicals, including Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Harper's Weekly and others.
Australian images from The Illustrated Times, the Pictorial Times and other British periodicals, as well as North American periodicals, including Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Harper's Weekly and others.
Australian images from The Illustrated Times, the Pictorial Times and other British periodicals, as well as North American periodicals, including Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Harper's Weekly and others.
Australian images from The Illustrated Times, the Pictorial Times and other British periodicals, as well as North American periodicals, including Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Harper's Weekly and others.
Australian images from The Illustrated Times, the Pictorial Times and other British periodicals, as well as North American periodicals, including Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Harper's Weekly and others.
Australian images from The Illustrated Times, the Pictorial Times and other British periodicals, as well as North American periodicals, including Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Harper's Weekly and others.
Australian images from The Illustrated Times, the Pictorial Times and other British periodicals, as well as North American periodicals, including Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Harper's Weekly and others.
Australian images from The Illustrated Times, the Pictorial Times and other British periodicals, as well as North American periodicals, including Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Harper's Weekly and others.
Australian images from The Illustrated Times, the Pictorial Times and other British periodicals, as well as North American periodicals, including Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Harper's Weekly and others.

Australian images from The Illustrated Times, the Pictorial Times and other British periodicals, as well as North American periodicals, including Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Harper's Weekly and others.

London; New York; Boston; Canada: Various publishers, 1845-1883. A collection of Australian related images from various shorter-lived illustrated periodicals published in England and North America such as The Pictorial Times, The Illustrated Times, The Illustrated News of the World, Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Harper's Weekly, Canadian Illustrated News and a few singletons from the Illustrated Family Paper, l'Opinion Publique and the Australasian Sketcher. These are scarcer publications than the market-dominating Illustrated London News & The Graphic. Of particular interest is a series in the Illustrated Times entitled "England Versus Australia", illustrated by Florence Claxton. Claxton was an English artist who spent part of her adolescence in Sydney, NSW in the 1850s. Throughout 1863 and early 1864, Miss Claxton drew imagined comparisons between the two environments, not uniformly biased towards either country. In the first, "Daughters Here" has a group of gentlewomen sitting an a lovely drawing room, making lace, playing piano or gazing in the mirror. "Sons There" shows the men doing the laundry, mending and cooking. "Governesses Here" shows a gaggle of governesses seemingly subject to the whims of a butler; "Want of Governesses There" shows a home with the mother distraught, the children causing absolute pandemonium & the father sitting and reading the paper. In another, "Needlewomen Here", the seamstresses work themselves to exhaustion in a dark room with one light; "A Modiste There" shows a prosperous woman with many customers.

We did not have access to a reference set for these smaller publications, so these images are an assemblage, not a comprehensive and consistent collection.

The Pictorial Times. (1843-1848) Opened by Henry Vizetelly, his brother and Andrew Spottiswoode. Eventually it was purchased by Ingram, owner of the ILN and merged with The Lady's Newspaper. Unfortunately, this newspaper did not date their issues, but sometimes dates are to be found in text.

The Illustrated Times. (1855-1862). A rival to the ILN, edited by Henry Vizetelly, who had left the ILN to open it. Vizetelly campaigned in the 1850s for the repeal of the Stamp Act. It's eventual repeal was a great boon, allowing the new paper to be published at the low price of two pence.

The Illustrated News of the World (1858-1864). This was published by John Tallis, famed for his atlases with maps adorned with views. According to OCLC: 7091980, It started in Feb. 1858 and ceased in Aug. 1864.

Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts. The magazine was founded by Frederick Gleason in 1851. According to OCLC: 10261386, it ran from 1851 - 1854. The publication name was changed to Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion in 1855, after managing editor Maturin Murray Ballou bought out the interest of Gleason. Unfortunately, this newspaper did not date their issues, but sometimes dates are to be found in text

Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City. Published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916, it featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects, and humor, alongside illustrations. It carried extensive coverage of the American Civil War, including many illustrations of events from the war. During its most influential period, it was the forum of the political cartoonist Thomas Nast.

This collection was started in London in the late 1970s. It was our intention to create a comprehensive reference of every woodcut image of Australian interest in the British periodicals the Illustrated London News & The Graphic from their start date to 1900. We also purchased woodcut illustrations from other smaller newspapers (as listed above), and when we moved to the US in 1982, we purchased views from Harper's Weekly, Gleason's and Ballou's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion.

An important component of this collection is the associated Excel listing of the prints & text. These are indexed by newspaper and thence by year, month & day, image title, print size & associated text including some artists and folder number.

The collection is housed in one A3 folders (approx. 12 ½ x 17" x 1") with fixed sleeves. Early years have 2 sheets per sleeve; later years are sometimes grouped together to fit into the available room in the album. It was manufactured in England by Rexel Nyrex with the following label in the back inside cover "Rexel / Nyrex / PFV / A3 / 24 Made in Gt. Britain." The company still manufactures plastic products. We have not been able to ascertain if these are archival folders, but the prints have been in the folder for at least 43 years and there has been no degradation.

A collection of some of the scarcer woodcut images of Australia, a valuable reference collection for images and articles that shaped perceptions of Australia to the wider world in the 19th century. Item #26133

Price: $40,000.00

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