Parsee CAIRO Railway Station CAMPO SANTO MARANO Sea Serpent RED SEA Herzegovina BOMBAY INDIA Mumbai

Eleven pages (22 sides) from a weekly issue of:

The Illustrated London News

DATED 1875

This first part of the description features a list of images i.e. prints from engravings, sketches, drawings etc (these sometimes have descriptive articles but not always). They include:

A Parsee at Prayer in India ' full front page engraving – a shore scene.

Morlach Refugees in the Ancient Lazaretto of the Ragusa Fortress in Herzegovina.

Sir John Gardner Wilkinson FRS

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The Prince of Wales in Egypt en Route for India:

Egypt – The Palace of Ghezireh at Cairo - half page print from engraving.

Outside an Arab Cafe in Cairo - half page.

El Qantarah on the Suez Canal - full page engraving – info Al Quantarah.

Cairo Railway Station: Reception of the Prince by the Khedive - full page print from engraving.

Funeral Procession in Venice en Route to The Campo Santo Murano - a beautiful double page engraving with a blank reverse, an extra supplement from a picture by Miss Clara Montalba – a scene showing a funeral gondola leaving the marble quayside in St Marks Basin, passing before San Marco and and various other buildings (Riva dei Schiavon possibly), sailing ships, and gondolas etc.

Sketches on the Red Sea: Suez – Sinaitie Range – Jebel Serbal – Ras Mohammed – Isle of Shadwar – The Brothers Rocks – Daedalus Shoal Lighthouse – Jebel Teer – Abu Ail Ilsands – Strait of Bab el Mandeb - full page.

Richmond, Virginia, USA: The Inauguration of the Stonewall Jackson Statue - half page.

The Congo Expedition: Bridge of Boats Over the Creek at Chengo - half page engraving.

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Supplement entitled Visit of the Prince of Wales to India:

The Nawar Sir Salar Jung GCSI the Prime Minister of the Nizam.

The Rao Pragmulgee of Cutch.

The Maharajah Holkar of Indore.

Bombay: Government House.

Fight Between Sea Serpent and Sperm Whale - from a sketch made from eyewitness accounts.

Sir S. Nodhowroo the Minister of Baroda

The Maharajah of Jeypore. Keenlyside

The Caves of Elephanta near Bombay - half page engraving – info. Gharapurichya Lenee Mumbai.

Illustrated London News Editorial.

The Court – Royal Comings and Goins – with mention of Queen Victori at Balmoral – Glassalt Shiel – Princess of Wales in Norfolk – Princes Louise Marchioness of Lorn – Empress Eugenie – Lord Carlingford – Rev. W. Lake Onslow – Rev Septimus Fairles of Lurgashall, Petwortyh – Phunt at Conyham the seat of Mister R. Elwes – etc.

Metropolitan News – with mention of Dr Barry Principal of Kings College – Viscountess Clifden and Major Stirling – Augustine's Working Mens Club and Clifden Institute – Mister F. S. Gilbert – Births and Deaths, numbers of deaths from various diseases – Mr James Heywood the President of the Statistical Society – Opening Meeting of the Royal Geographical Society and President Sir henry Rawlinsion speaking on the African exploration and Mr Stanley's discoveries etc.

War in the Herzegovina. SleekburnC.

Foreign and Colonial News.

Fine Arts.

The Church – Preferments and Appointments, a list of appointments etc with mention of Rev. E. J. Barnes of Lowestoft – Rev. Canon Barry of Kings Colelge – Rev. Sir Edward Graham Moon – Hon. J. J. Carnegie – etc.

Universities and Public Schools includes list of Candidates passing MB exams incl. George Henry Batterbury – George Garlick – Henry Hetley – Bennett May – Thomas Wemyss Bogg – Edgar Reginald Legassicke Crespin – Frederick John Morton Palmer - etc.

Education- includes Mr Gladstone at the Lecture hall, Greenwich etc.

Death of Mister Salisbury at Torquay "in an erect position" – short apprx 40wds - - - Annual Colston Festival at Bristol, short apprx 40 wds - - - Banquet at Hawarden, marriage of W. H. Gladstone MP, short apprx 60 wds.

New Books.

The Magazines.

National Sports.

the Congo Expedition – with mention of Sir William Hewett Commodore, of HMS Active – Captain Bradshaw of HMS Encounter Commander Medlycott HMS Spiteful – Lieutenant Nesham – Lieutenant Rolfe – Dr henry Fegan.

The Gales and Floods - with mention of Waterside London – Bridgwater and Tidal wave on river Parrett – Ireland and Valley of the Tolka – etc.

Miss Anne Dixon of Holton Park, Lincolnshire, short apprx 40wds.

Stonewall Jackson - Statue at Richmond – apprx 1500 words.

Royal Visit to India.

Music.

The Great Sea Serpent – An account received by letter from the Rev. E. L. Penny Chaplain to HMS London at Zanzibar from an account by Captain Drevar of the Barque Pauline, bound with coals to Zanzibar, at lat. 5 degree 13 min. S long. 35 degr. W.

The Theatres with mention of Charles Warner – Miss Minnie Walton – Mrs E. Fitzwilliam – Mr H. B. Farnie – Miss Lottie Venne – Miss Annie Lafontane – George Belmore the Comedian.

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SleekburnC. 2011

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