Artist

Illustrated London News

H Beard Print Collection
H Beard Print Collection
H Beard Print Collection
H Beard Print Collection

Illustrated London News is an Impressionism artist. 5 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

This weekly paper was London’s town crier with pictures—lurid crime scenes next to royal weddings, all squeezed between ads for corsets and patent medicines. A wood-engraving team carved the news in a day so the 1850 issue could hit doorsteps by breakfast with a front-page riot in Clerkenwell. Why it matters to you: flip to the H Beard print from June 7, 1890 and you’ll spot the moment a horse bolted through a street market—proof that photojournalism hadn’t killed the thrill of the hand-carved image yet.

Works by Illustrated London News

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

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