The Illustrated London News - January to June 1853

This is a volume of The Illustrated London News, January to June 1853

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552 pages

Contents:

1. Article - The New Ministry
2. Engraving - The New Premier, The Right Hon. The Earl of Aberdeen, K.T.
3. Imperial Parliament
4. National Sports
5. Obituaries
6. Royal and Court News
7. Politics and Law
8. Engraving - Argyll House, the residence of the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen
9. Engraving - The Reform Clubhouse
10. Article and engraving - Restoration of Lower Prover Parochial Chapel
11. Article and engravings - Paris Fashions for the New Year
12. Engraving - The Emperor Louis Napoleon at the Hunting Meeting, at Compiegne
13. Music
14. Theatre News
15. Naval and Military Intelligence
16. Foreign News
17. Article - The Hurricane of Monday
18. Double page engravings - The Pantomimes
19. Article and engraving - Soiree of Photographers, in the Great Room of the Society of Arts
20. Article and engraving - Examination of the Students of the Cheltenham Training College, in the Music Hall of the Royal Old Wells
21. Article and engraving - Destruction by Fire of the Steamship "City of Pittsburg"
22. Article and engraving - Wreck of the "Successor" in the Madras Roads
23. Small adverts 
24. Article and engraving - A Water Sketch by Phiz of Christmas and its Festivities
25. Article and engraving - The Staunton Chessmen
26. Engraving - Terrific Explosion at the Calf of Man (article on next page)
27. Article and engraving - Destruction Storm at Penzance
28. Article and engraving - Wrecks in the Mersey
29. Article and engraving - The Steamer "Neptune" off the Coast of Norway
30. Article and engraving - Consecration of the New Church of St. Matthew, Marylebone
31. Article and engraving - Hurricane at Oxford
32. Article and full page engraving - Grand Chapter of the Order of Charles III at Madrid
33. Full page of engravings - The New Ministry - The Cabinet
34. Literature
35. Article and engraving - The new residence of the Russian Embassy
36. Article and engraving - The Royal Mail Steam-Ship "Arabia"
37. Article and engraving - A Scene at the Theatre Royal, Jersey
38. Article and engraving - Thomas Wright, The Manchester Prison Philanthropist
39. Article and engraving - Marble Statues found in Windsor Forest
40. Engraving - The new Grammar School, Lancaster
41. Engraving - Emigration from the Isle of Skye - The "Hercules", in the Harbour of Campbelton
42. Full page engraving - The Prize winners from the Great Metropolitan Poultry Show
43. Engraving - Annual Piggeon Show of the Philo-Peristeron Society
44. Article and engraving - A New Implement of Destruction - Nasmyth's anti-invasion floating mortar
45. 2 page article and engravings - The emigration from the Isle of Skye
46. Article and engraving - New Year's Festival at Colney Hatch
47. Article and engraving - New Coinage for Camboja
48. Article and engraving - Landslip upon the South Devon Railway, between Dawlish and Teignmouth
49. Article and engraving - Equestian Statue of Lord Hardinge
50. Article and engraving - Athens
51. Article and engraving - Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe
52. Article and engraving - Banquet to the American Minister at Manchester
53. Article and engraving - Exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Society of England
54. Engraving - Landing Gold from "The Australian" Steam-Ship, in the East India Docks
55. Article - Proposed reforms in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
56. Article and engraving - Sandown Castle, Kent
57. Article and engraving - Montenegro: its Vladika and People
58. Article and engraving - The Italian Boulevards, Paris
59. Article and engraving - The Burmese War
60. 2 page Article and engravings - The Turon Gold Diggings
61. Full page engraving - Prize winners from the Metropolitan  Exhibition of Poultry and Pigeons
62. Article and engraving - New Church at Kingwood, Surrey
63. Article and engraving - Statuette of the Marquis of Dalhousie
64. Article and engraving - Launch of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steam-Ship the "Vectis"
65. Article and engraving - The Caloric Ship "Ericsson"
66. Article and engraving - The Duke of Argyll
67. Article - The Emperor's Marriage
68. Article and engraving - Inauguration of Sydney University
69. Article and engraving - Bear Hunt in the Pyrenees
70. Full page article and engravings - Photographs from California
71. Full page article and engravings - New British Colony of Bay Islands
72. Article and engraving - The Princess Theatre
73. Article and engraving - Australian Gold conveyed from the East India Docks to the Bank of England
74. Article and engravings - Bust of the Right Hon. David Boyle, Justice General of Scotland
75. Article and engraving - Masonic Ball in the Town Hall, Salford
76. Article and engravings - Chinese Regatta at Hong-Kong
77. Article and engraving - Inauguration of a Monster Wine-Tun at Dieppe
78. Article - The Press and the Theatres
79. Engraving - New Bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice
80. Article and engraving - Wellington, Somerset
81. Article and engraving - Railway around Paris
82. Article and engravings - Opening of a new Church in Miligraya, near Columbo, Ceylon
83. Article and engraving - "Sea Elephants" from the Isle of Desolation
84. Full page article and engravings - Chantilly
85. Article and engraving - Impending famine in Madeira
86. Article and engraving - The new City Prison, Holloway
87. Article and engraving - Kaffir Prisoners at the Cape
88. Article and engraving - Steam to Australia - "The Antelope", Screw Steamship
89. Full page article and engravings - Melfi, after the late Earthquake
90. Article and engraving - Celebration of Lord Pevensey's Twenty First Birthday at the Sheffield Arms Inn, Fletching, Sussex
91. Article and engraving - St James's Hospital,  Doncaster
92. Article and engraving - The Clipper Schooner "Marian Zagury"
93. Article and engraving - Testimonial to Mr R N Philipps
94. Article and engraving - Testimonial to Major Maugham
95. Article and engraving - Visitation of Trinity College, Oxford
96. Article and engravings - Lord Raglan and Raglan Castle
97. Article and engraving - Burford's Panorama of the Bernese Alps
98. Article - Marriage of the Emperor of the French
99. Engraving - The Empress of the French, in her Bridal Costume
100. Full page engraving - The arrival of the Imperial Procession at Notre Dame
101. Full page engraving - Napoleon and Eugenie - The Marriage Ceremony in Notre Dame - The Altar
102. Full page engraving - Napoleon III, Emperor of the French
103. Full page engraving - Eugenie, The Empress of the French
104. Article and engravings - Norton's Patent Indicators of Numbers and Distances
105. Full page engraving - The Marriage Ceremony in Notre Dame
106. Article and engraving - The Imperial State Carriage
107. Article and engraving - Closeburn
108. Full page engraving - The Civil Marriage of the Emperor in the Salle Des Marechaux, at the Tuileries
109. Article - English and American Literature - The Paper Duties
110. Engraving - An Irish Petty Sessions
111. Article and engraving - The Valparaiso and Santiago Railway
112. Poem and engraving - St. Valentine's Day
113. Article and engraving - Amateur Concert in aid of the funds of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Infirmary
114. Full page engraving - Westminster Hall and St Stephen's Porch
115. Full page engraving - St Stephen's Hall
116. Article - The New Houses of Parliament
117. Article - New Artic Expedition with engraving of Her Majesty's Sloop "Rattlesnake"
118. Article and engraving - The Boeuf Gras, at Paris
119. Article and engravings - The arrival of the new Viceroy in Dublin
120. Article and engravings - Opening of the British Museum
121. Engraving - Grand State Ball at the Palace of the Luxembourg
122. Article and engraving - The Australian Clipper-Ship "Marco Polo"
123. Article and engraving - His Highness Abbas Pacha's Palace, at Benha, and the site of the intended Railway Bridge over the Damietta Branch of the Nile
124. Article and engraving - Mr Bartley, late of the Princess' Theatre
125. Article and engravings - Exhibition at the British Institution
126. Article and engraving - The Countess De Tera (Empress of the French) at Madrid
127. Article and engraving - Commencing the Railway between Seaham and Sunderland
128. Article and engravings - Charlecote new Church
129. Article and engraving - Ancient Chapel in Leadenhall-Street
130. Parliamentary Portraits - Mr Thomas Phinn, M.P. for Bath;  Mr Kenneth Macaulay, M.P. for Cambridge
131. Article and engraving - Dreadful Shipwreck and loss of life -Wreck of "The Queen Victoria" Steamer on the Bailey Light Rock, off Howarth
132. Engraving - Arrival of the Indian and Australian Mails at Alexandria
133. Article and engraving - The "Calcutta" Steamer in a Hurricane
134. Article and engraving - Shanghae Fowls presented to Her Majesty
135. Article and engraving - Monument to the Commander, Officers and Crew of "The Cleopatra"
136. Article and engraving - Foundation of the Hospital De La Princesa at Madrid
137. Article and engraving - General Raphael Carrera
138. Article and engravings - Sketches from the Victoria Gold Diggings
139. Article and engraving - Remarkable Antiquarian Discoveries at Cuma
140. Article and engraving - Knebworth, Herts
141. Article and engraving - "Macbeth" at the Princess Theatre
142. Full page engraving - Presentation of the Address of the Convocation of the Clergy to Her Majesty, at Buckingham Palace
143. Article - The National Gallery; its Formation and Management
144. Engraving - Respect to the memory fo the Late Duke of Wellington in India
145. Double page engraving - The Funeral Procession of Field-Marshal The Duke of Wellington
146. Engraving - Saint David's Day
147. Article and engraving - The late Framjee Cowasjee, Esq., of Bombay
148. Article and engraving - A Burmese Stockade, Martaban
149. Article and engraving - Burning of the Ship "British Merchant"
150. Article and engraving - Presentation of Plate to Capt. Patey, R.N.
151. Article and engraving - The Aberdeen Clipper "Cairngorm"
152. Article and engravings - Paris Fashions for March
153. Article and engravings - The Fancourt Testimonial
154. Article and engraving - The Brownlow Testimonial
155. Article and engraving - Curling at Croxteth Hall
156. Article and engravings - Total Destruction of St. George's Church, Doncaster
157. Engraving - Committee of the House of Commons upon the Chatham Election
158. Article and engraving - Interoceanic Routes across Central America
159. Article and engraving - Great Shoal of Whales, at Stornaway
160. Portrait engravings - Mr Charles Turner, M.P. for Liverpool;  Captain J N Gladstone, R.N., M.P. for Devizes
161. Article and engraving - Large Nugget of Gold from Port Phillip
162. Article and engraving - Mr M'Flashen's apparatus for the removal of Large Trees
163. Article and engraving - Banquet at the Town Hall, Liverpool
164. Engraving - The Female Emigrant's Home, at Hatton Garden
165. Article - Female Emigration Fund
166. Article and engraving - Testimonial to The Rev Dr. Cumming, Minister of the Scotch National Church, Crown Court, Covent Garden
167. Article - The Inauguration Address of the New American President
168. Engraving - General Pierce, the new President of the United States
169. Article and engravings - Nest of the Menura Alberti
170. Article and engraving - The Johnstone Grand Industrial Exhibition 
171. Obiturary - The late M Orfila
172. Article and engraving - Bronze Statue of the late Marquis of Bute
173. Article and engraving - St Patrick's Day
174. Article and engraving - Drowning the Shamrock on St. Patrick's Night
175. Article - The Burmese War
176. Engraving - The City of Prome, from the Heights
177. Article and engraving - St George's Church, Doncaster
178. Article and engraving - Haymarket Theatre - Mr Webster's Farewell Address
179. Article and engraving - Cast of the Statue of Charles I, at Charing Cross
180. Engraving - The Ninevah Room, at the British Museum
181. Article and engraving - The New Medical College Hospital, Calcutta
182. Article and engraving - Wreck of the Barque "Sir Fowell Buxton"
183. Article and engraving - The City Coal Dues
184. Article and engravings - The Fire at Windsor Castle
185. Full page engraving - "The Raising of Lazarus" - from an etching by Rembrandt
186. Article and engraving - Salisbury Poultry Cross
187. Article and engraving - Monument to the late Mr G R Porter
188. Parliamentary Portrait - Mr Apsley Pellatt, M.P. for Southwark
189. Article and engraving - Lady Day by Phiz
190. Article and engraving - Snow-Shoe Hurdle Race, at Montreal
191. Engraving - Cleopatra's Needles, Alexandria
192. Article and engravings - The Ball of the Legislative Body to the Emperor and Empress of the French
193. Article and engraving - The Australian Royal Mail Steam Ship "Sydney"
194. Article and engraving - The Easter Ham Fair at Paris
195. Full page article and engravings - The Testimonnial Dinner to Sir George Grey
196. Full page article and engravings - Church of the Holy Sepulchre
197. Article and engraving - Mr Burford's Panorama of Granada and the Alhambra
198. Article and engraving - The "Air-Walker" at Drury-Lane Theatre
199. Article and engraving - The Kaffir War
200. Engraving - Abraham Miller ("Pishikee-Ooshkeeshik"-Ox Eyed), aged 115 years
201. Full page article and engravings - Fashions for April
202. Article and engraving - The Napier Testimonial
203. Article and engraving - Suit of Greek Armour
204. Article and engravings - Ericsson's Caloric Engine
205. Engraving - "The Duke of Sutherland" Steam Ship, wrecked off Aberdeen Pier
206. Article and engraving - Mr Ellis, The Industrial and Ragged School Teacher
207. Article and engravings - New Zealand - Native Church at Otaki - Christchurch, Canterbury Colony
208. Full page article and engravings - The Burmese War
209. Article and engraving - School of Oriental Languages, at Paris
210. Article and engraving - Tercentenary of the Bromsgrove Grammar School
211. Parliamentary Portrait - Mr Benjamin Oliveira, M.P. for Pontefract
212. Article and engraving - Colliery Explosion at Wigan
213. Article and engraving - Princess Theatre - "Marco Spada"
214. Article and engraving - Railways in India - Embankment for the Calcutta Railway, behind the Town of Serampore
215. Full page article and engravings - Tombs just discovered at Sakkara
216. Article and engravings - Wreck of the "Duke of Sutherland" Steamship
217. Article and engraving - Testimonial to the Hon R Godlanton
218. 2 page article and engravings - Festivities in Belgium - The Duke de Brabant
219. Full page article and engravings - Croxton Park - The Meet and Croxton Park Races
220. Parliamentary Portraits - Sir J R Carna, Bart, M.P. for Lymington
221. Article and engraving - Destructive Fire at Hunstanton Hall, Norfolk
222. Engraving - Hale's Rocket Factory, at Rotherhithe
223. Article and engraving - Grand Steeple-Chase near Paris
224. Article and engraving - Jamaica Copper Mines
225. Half page article and engravings - Corn Exchange, Hitchin
226. Article and engraving - New Zealand
227. Article and engraving - Port Natal
228. Article and engraving - New Theological College in the Diocese of Oxford
229. Article and engravings - Memorials of Sir Isaac Newton
230. Article and engravings - Depot of the Baltimore and Washington Railroad at Washington, U.S,
231. Article and engraving - Marble Statue of the King Consort of the Queen of Spain
232. Article and engravings - Presentation of Testimonials to Mr Scholefield, M.P.
233. Article - Mr Gladston's Budget
234. Engraving - Launch of Her Majesty's Screw Steamship "James Watt", at the Royal Dockyard, Pembroke
235. Article and engravings - Recall of Santa Anna to Mexico
236. Article and engraving - Portable Iron Church for the Diocese of Melbourne, South Australia
237. Article and engraving - A Voyage to Valparaiso
238. Article and engraving - Redcliffe Infant School, Bristol
239. Full page article and engravings - The Latest Excavations at Pompeii
240. Article and engraving - St. Mark's Church, Albert Road, Regent's Park
241. Article and engraving - Destruction of a Large Mill at Halifax
242. Full page article and engravings - Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Watercolours
243. Article and engravings - Paris Fashions for May
244. Engraving - A Bush Fire in Australia
245. Article and engraving - The United States Industrial Exhibition 
246. Article and engraving - A Burmese Dance
247. Article and engravings - Church of St. John, Angell Town, North Brixton
248. Article - Restoration of Leighton Buzzard Cross
249. Full page article and engravings - The United States Expedition to Japan
250. Article and engraving - The Ocean Penny Postage Bazaar, in Manchester
251. Article and engraving - Commemoration of the Birth of Shakspeare
252. 2 page article and engravings - Exhibition of the Royal Academy
253. Article and engraving - Launch of the "Atrato", at Greenock
254. Article and engraving - Harlaxton Hall
255. Article - Mask of Sir Isaac Newton
256. Article and engravings - The Photographic Camera
257. Engraving - Scene in a Magistrate;s Cutchery (or Court), in Oude
258. Article - British Rule in India
259. Article - Great Chess Meeting at Manchester
260. 2 page article and engravings - The Submarine Electric Telegraph Cable from England to Belgium
261. Full page article and engravings - Attack on Medina, Sierra Leone River
262. Article and engraving - British and Foreign School Society
263. Article and engraving - The late Ludwig Tieck
264. Article and engraving - New Warehouses erected for Messrs. Brown, Son and Co, Manchester
265. Article and engraving - New Church of St Anne's, Highgate Rise
266. Article and engraving - New Church of St Gabriel, Warwick Square, Pimlico
267. Article and engraving - Presentation of the Shakspeare Testimonial to Kossuth
268. Royal Academy Supplement
269. Article and engraving - Site of the New National Gallery
270. 2 page article with engravings - An account of the Gold-Fields in Australia
271. Article - The Great Industrial Exhibition of Ireland
272. Engraving - Opening of the Dublin Industrial Exhibition
273. Article and engraving - Great Fire at North Shore Cotton Mill, Liverpool
274. Article and engraving - "Billy Bowlegs" and Suite
275. Article and engravings - Buddhu's Tooth, Ceylon
276. Article and engraving - Monument to the late Sir Robert Peel at Forfar
277. Article and engraving - New High Water Landing Pier, Margate
278. Article and engravings - Samuelson's Patent Digging Machine
279. Article and engraving - The "Faid Rabani", Steam Yacht
280. Full page Article and engravings - The Restoration of Boston Church
281. Article and engraving - The late Lieutenant-General Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, Bart, G.C.B.
282. Article and engraving - Exeter Training College
283. Article and engraving - Greenwich Park, Whitsuntide Fair (engraving by Phiz)
284. Engraving - Pony Races on Blackheath - drawn by Leech
285. Engraving - Zulu Kaffirs at the St George's Gallery, Knightsbridge
286. Article and engraving - Launch of the "Himalaya" Screw Steamship
287. Article and engraving - Commencement of the Lisbon Railway
288. Article and engraving - Grand Masonic Ceremony at Hull
289. Double page article and engraving - Celebrated Racehorses and Jockeys - From a Picture by A.F. de Prades
290. Article and engravings - The Cottage Dog-Cart
291. Full page article and engravings - The Aquatic Vivarium at the Zoological Gardens, Regents Park
292. Article and engraving - Great East Window , St Botolph's Church, Boston
293. Article and engraving - Exhibition of Cabinet Work, and Studies under the Department of Science and Art
294. Article and engraving - The Surrey Zoological Gardens
295. Supplement - The Paris Exhibition
296. Article and engravings - The Great Northern Railway
297. Full page article and engravings - The School for the Indigent Blind
298. Engraving - The new Artic Expedition in search of Sir Joh Franklin - H.M. Screw Steamship "Phoenix"
299. Article and engravings - Opening of the First Railway in India
300. Engraving - General view of Bombay, from Malabar Hill
301. Article and engraving -The Mahmoudieh Canal
302. Article and engraving - Grand Review at Woolwich
303. Article and engraving - Grand Ball at the Hotel of the British Embassy, Paris 
304. Full page engraving - St James's Street - Her Majesty's Drawing Room
305. Article and engraving - Chantilly Races
306. Article and engraving - The Camp at Chobham
307. Article and engraving - Destructive Fire at Watford
308. Article and engraving - New Town, Dumbarton
309. 8 page Supplement with engravings - Great Industrial Exhibition, Dublin
310. Engraving - House of Commons Committee Room - Railway Committee
311. Article and engraving - His Royal Highness, the Duke of Genoa
312. Article and engraving - Camp of Satory, near Versailles
313. Full page article and engravings - Friern Manor Dairy Farm
314. 2 page article and engravings - The Oxford Installation
315. Article and engraving - Royal Thames Yacht Club Schooner Match
316. Article and engraving - Remains of Old Shelton Hall, the birthplace of Elijah Fenton, the Poet
317. Article and engraving - Great Fire at the Gutta Percha Company's Works
318. Article and engraving - Royal Confirmation
319. Article and engraving - Opening of the new Portland Street Suspension Bridge, Glasgow
320. Article and engraving - Explosion of the "Times" Steamer
321. Engraving - Hougoumont, on the Field of Waterloo
322. Article and engravings - Bath and West of England Agricultural Society, Plymouth
323. Article and engraving - Entrance of the Chancellor into the Sheldonian Theatre
324. Engraving - Grand Masonic Ball, in the Town Hall, Oxford
325. Double page article and engravings - The Camp, at Chobham - General View
326. Article and engraving - Tercentenary Festival of Christ's Hospital
327. Article and engraving - Conversazione at the Mansion House
328. Article and engraving - Princess Theatre "Sardanapalus"
329. Article and engraving - West Essex Yeomanry Cavalry
330. Article and engravings - Submarine Electric Telegraph from England to Holland
331. Engraving - Grand Entertainment to Commodore Vanderbildt, at Royal Victoria Archery Rooms, Southampton
332. Article and engraving - Threatened War on the Gold Coast, with the Ashantees, and execution of Assin Chiefs
333. Article - The African Slave Trade
334. Engraving - Capture of an African Slaver, by H.M.S. "Linnet", in the River Pongas
335. Full page article and engravings - The new Revolution in Cabs (engravings by Phiz)
336. Engraving - The Camp at Chobham - The arrival of Her Majesty at Magnet Hill
337. Article and engraving - The King and Queen of Hanover
338. Article and engraving - Launch of the West India Mail Steamship the "Solent" at Cowes
339. Article and engraving - Laying of the first stone of the Asylum for Idiots, at Earlswood, near Reigate
340. 2 page article and engravings - The Camp at Chobham
341. Article and engraving - The School of Practical Art for Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire
342. Article and engraving - St John's College, Hurstpierpoint
343. Full page article and engravings - West Kent Poulty Exhibition
344. Article and engraving - The search for Sir John Franklin
345. Article and engraving - Launch of the Steamship "Croesus", at Blackwall
346. Full page article and engravings - Destruction of the Imperial Theatre, Moscow, by Fire
347. Double page engraving - The Camp at Chobham - Troops passing in review before Her Majesty
348. Article and engraving - The Architectural Museum
349. Full page article and engravings - The Excavation at Cuma
350. Article and engravings - The Fejervary Archaeological Collection
351. Article and engravings - The French Camp at Helfaut
352. Full page article and engravings - The Chasseurs de Vincennes
353. Double page engraving - Her Majesty, Royal Visitors, and Staff, at the Camp at Chobham
354. 2 page article and engravings - The Camp at Chobham