The best pictures from ‘The Graphic’, 75

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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 Harry Furniss lecturing on the art of the political cartoon.

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Mr Harry Furniss lecturing on "The Humours of Parliament" using a cartoon of Gladstone, the GOM (Grand Old Man or God’s Only Mistake as Disraeli wittily preferred), by Sydney P Hall

The second picture shows an afternoon in the King’s Road, Brighton.

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Afternoon in the King's Road by R Caldecott

The third picture shows art students in the Louvre.

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Art Students copying Pictures at the Louvre, Paris by A Boyd Houghton

High-resolution scans of all the illustrations from ‘The Graphic’ (London 1870-1902) can be found in the Look and Learn picture library.

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