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Illustrations from The Illustrated London News, Vol. LVI (1870).
This was a popular weekly newspaper in London, with huge numbers of engravings. Because of the printing processes and relatively low paper quality the engravings are not always very clear.
There is an index online at iln.org for 1870.
Title: Illustrated London News Vol 56
Editor: Leighton, George C.
City: London
Date: 1870
Total items: 34
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: G.---Flauto dolce, or flûte à bec.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/377-Flauto-dolce,-or-flute-a-bec-q75-461x200.jpg "[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: G.---Flauto dolce, or flûte à bec.]")
Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: G.—Flauto dolce, or flûte à bec.
The Flauto dolce, or sweet flute, is called in English the Recorder.; in French is is the flûte à bec or beaked flute. [more...]
[$]![[picture: A closer crop of a portrait of Sir Charles Dickens]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/629-Charles-Dickens-wallpaper-q80-320x200.jpg "[picture: A closer crop of a portrait of Sir Charles Dickens]")
A closer crop of a portrait of Sir Charles Dickens
The portrait is from an obituary of Sir Charles Dickens published the week after he died, in June 1870. This version is cropped so you just have his head, and is an aspect ratio suitable for a desktop or tablet wallpaper (8:5 aspect ratio). [more...]
[$]![[picture: Gadshill Place, Home of Charles Dickens.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/637-Gadshill-Place-q80-320x200.jpg "[picture: Gadshill Place, Home of Charles Dickens.]")
Gadshill Place, Home of Charles Dickens.
A photograph of Charles Dickens outside his country home, Gadshill Place (also Gads Hill or Gas’s Hill Place) in Higham, Kent, UK, taken shortly before his death in 1870. [more...]
[$]![[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: R.---Spinet]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/377-Spinet-q50-680x200.jpg "[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: R.---Spinet]")
Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: R.—Spinet
A Spinet is a sort of harpsichord—that is, a musical instrument with a keyboard but in which the keys are plucked rather than monked with a hammer as in a piano. The strings in a spinet go off at an angle, [...] [more...]
[$]![[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: O.---Harp-Lute]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/377-Harp-Lute-85x200.jpg "[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: O.---Harp-Lute]")
Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: O.—Harp-Lute
“The instrument called a harp-lute, with twelve strings, was invented by Edward Light, of London, about seventy years ago, and was designed for accompanying vocal [...] [more...]
[$]Illustrations from The Illustrated London News, Vol. LVI (1870).
This was a popular weekly newspaper in London, with huge numbers of engravings. Because of the printing processes and relatively low paper quality the engravings are not always very clear.
There is an index online at iln.org for 1870.
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