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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: 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...] [$]
![[picture: Alms Box, Skipwith]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/353-Alms-Box,-Skipwith-q75-177x200.jpg "[picture: Alms Box, Skipwith]")
Leaves from a Sketch-Book. YORK. The Engravings on this page are drawn from various sketches made some time ago in York and its neighbourhood. As their name implies, they are not intended to represent the architectural glories which are the pride of the great county of York, but have been hit off as taste or opportunity suggested—now from an old [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: A.---Mountain Horn]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/377-Mountain-Horn-q67-1853x200.jpg "[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: A.---Mountain Horn]")
Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: A.—Mountain Horn
“The mountain horn, of wood, bound with brass, is nearly 8ft. long, and is one of those used by the Alpine herdsmen of Switzerland, and likewise in Sweden, to give signals to each other, or to call their cattle together, as well as to [...] [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: Holy Trinity, York]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/353-Holy-Trinity,-York-q75-216x200.jpg "[picture: Holy Trinity, York]")
See 353-Alms-Box,-Skipwith for more details [$]
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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