The best pictures from ‘The Graphic’, 4
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We have selected three of the best pictures from ‘The Graphic’, a nineteenth-century illustrated newspaper and rich source of remarkable engravings.
The first picture shows undergraduate navvies at Oxford.
Amateur Navvies at Oxford, Undergraduates making a Road as suggested by Mr Ruskin by J Nash
The second picture shows a fancy dress ball.
The Great Fancy Dress Ball at Tavistock Hill by W Ralston
The third picture shows the burning of a prison ship.
The Burning of the Roman Catholic Reformatory Ship "Clarence" on the Mersey by J Nash
High-resolution scans of all the illustrations from The Graphic (London 1870-1902) can be found in the Look and Learn picture library.