London at the End of the Century:A Book of Gossip
a Beckett, Arthur William
1900
PICTURES TO THE FRONT.
Perhaps the most striking feature of the end of the century in connection with the Press, is the growth of illustration. Until the establishment of , the metropolis had no paper relying more upon pictures than letterpress for its popularity. and -survivors of the fittest-had numerous sketches of | |
10 | striking events from time to time, in the earlier years of the 's reign, but news, rather than the illustration thereof, was their speciality. Nowadays both papers to which I have referred have dropped the pencil for the pen. No doubt photography and the rapidity with which engraving can, in these later days, be accomplished, have had much to do with the development of the limner's art in its relation to daily publications. was to thousands a revelation, and has stimulated many of its contemporaries to increased exertion in the direction of pictoral reproduction. Printers' ink passes over, with gratifying results, not only type, but blocks. This would have been impossible half a century ago. Thanks to modern improvements, when the writer can be assisted by the artist in daily journalism the work of both is available. |