Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1900-01-26
ILLUsrRArED IouRNAIIsM
History Of the Pictorial Feature Of the
English Press.

The first journal 70 give lliustra-
tions With any frequency was The Mer-
GURUS Civicus, which came out during
the civil war with portraits Of Charles
J. and his queen, Cromwell and his
officers aud Prince Rupert More
elaborate pictures dealing with the
war we're, however, left to the pam
phlets Of the time The Frost fair
on the Thames in 1858 was made the
subject of an interesting broadside,
and SO also was the funeral Of Queen
Mary II. in 1896. With the eight
zenith century the art Of illustrating
actualities grew apace. Caricatures
abounded, now Of the Jacobites, now
of the South sea bubble or similar ex-
elements, The Daily Post Of 174O
afforded an example of daily paper
attempting to illustrate a current
event. On March 20 Of that year it
published detailed diagram Of Ad-
miral Vernon's attack on Porto Bello.
The st. James Chronicle Of 1895 pre-
sented its readers with an illustration
of strange wild animal that had ex-
cited much attention in France, but
this illustration was obviously mag
mary. The Gentleman's Magazine
of 1851 gave a portrait Of Edward
Bright, fat man weighing 424 stone.
In the Town and Country Magazine
for 1873 there were portraits Of the
heroes and heroines of many a famous
scandal, as, for example, Of Byron's
father and the countess of Carmar-
then, of a certain lord lieutenant Of
Ireland and "the celebrated Miss
Pm" In the Thespian Magazine
for 1893 ! find an illustration of the
new theater at Birmingham Then
there were the English Magazine, the
Macaroni Magazine, the Monstrous
Magazine and the Political Magazine
all containing illustrations on cop
per, more or less topical, although
closing the eighteenth century with
but little premonition Of what the
was to bring forth in the
matter Of news illustration
The first hero of illustrated jour
whose name must always be
with that of Herbert Ingram
as a founder Of the pictorial press,
was William Clement, the proprietor
Of the Observer, the first number of
which was published in 1891 Clement
seems to have been prepared to face
the illustration Of news not systemat-
ically, but only when a crisis in pub
lie affairs called for it. Even now,
when illustrated newspapers are so
numerous, it is that preparedness for
a crisis which must always diffeTen-
tate the capably from the incapably
journal. The Observer,
for example, published a picture of
the island of st. Helena when it was
selected as a place ofresidence for Ma
poleon Bonaparte after Waterloo. In
1918 a certain Abraham Thornton,
who was tried for murder, appealed
TO the wager of battle, which, after
long arguments before the judges, was
proved to be still in accordance with
statute law. Thornton's portrait APP
peared in the Observer, Clements
owned for time Bells Life and the
Morning Chronicle. All his journals
contained occasional topical illustra-
tions, but the Observer took the lead
Its illustration Of the house where the
Cato street conspirators met in 1920
is really sufficiently elaborate for a
journal Of to-day, and in 1920 it gave
its readers "a Faithful Reproduction
of the Interior Of the House of Lords
as Prepared for the Trial of Her Most
Gracious Majesty Queen Caroline. -
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