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Historic magazine of news and the arts, published in London. Founded in 1842 as a weekly, it became a monthly in 1971. A pioneer in the use of various graphic arts, it was London's first illustrated periodical, the first periodical to make extensive use of woodcuts and engravings, and the first to use photographs. In 1912 it became the first periodical using rotogravure to publish an integrated picture and text section. Initially focused mainly on English social life, it later broadened its scope to embrace general news and cultural activities.

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Illustrated London News (ILN), British illustrated paper, launched by Herbert Ingram on 14 May 1842, the first of three path-breaking journals—the others were the Parisian L'Illustration and the Leipzig Illustrirte Zeitung (both 1843)—aimed at the growing mass market. The ILN's first number carried a sensational artist's impression of an attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In its early decades, pictures by photographers such as Felice Beato, Antoine Claudet, Joseph Cundall (1818-95), and Roger Fenton were used as the basis for wood-engraved illustrations. The full integration of text and half-tone photographs by rotogravure took place in 1912. (But drawn illustrations continued to coexist with photographs for many years.) The ILN appeared at varying intervals during its life, and ultimately as a quarterly. It closed in 1989.

— Robin Lenman

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Napoleon III on his deathbed, in the January 25, 1873 edition.
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Napoleon III on his deathbed, in the January 25, 1873 edition.

The Illustrated London News was a magazine founded by Herbert Ingram and his friend Mark Lemon, the editor of the magazine Punch. With Lemon as his chief adviser, the first edition of the Illustrated London News appeared on 14 May, 1842. Costing sixpence, the magazine had sixteen pages and thirty-two woodcuts. The first edition included pictures of the war in Afghanistan, a train crash in France, a steamboat explosion in Canada and a fancy dress ball at Buckingham Palace.

Although 26,000 copies of the first number were disposed of, there was a great falling off in the sale of the second and subsequent numbers. Herbert Ingram, however, was determined to make his property a success, and one that is still spoken of as a brilliant stroke of journalistic enterprise. He sent to every clergyman in the country a copy of the number containing illustrations of the installation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and by this means secured many new subscribers.

The magazine was published weekly until 1971, when it became a monthly. From 1989, it was published bi-monthly, then quarterly and currently bi-annually.[1]

The Illustrated London News exists today as the Illustrated London News Group.

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