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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: Opening of a New Promenade and Drinking-Fountain at Blackpool, Lancashire]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/460-Opening-of-a-new-Promenade-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Opening of a New Promenade and Drinking-Fountain at Blackpool, Lancashire]")
Opening of a New Promenade and Drinking-Fountain at Blackpool, Lancashire
The engraving shows soldiers, a marching band, flags and banners, triumphal arches and crowds, with the Clifton Arms Hotel in the background. The Clifton Arms Hotel was being rebuilt, and here I think we have the new building on the left and the old, much smaller building on the right. The New [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Doorway, York]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/353-Doorway,-York-q75-136x200.jpg "[picture: Doorway, York]")
See Alms Box, Skipwith for the caption. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Gadshill Place, Home of Charles Dickens.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/637-Gadshill-Place-q80-320x200.jpg "[picture: Gadshill Place, Home of Charles Dickens.]")
Gadshill Place, Home of Charles Dickens.
A photograph of Charles Dickens outside his country home, Gadshill Place (also Gads Hill or Gas’s Hill Place) in Higham, Kent, UK, taken shortly before his death in 1870. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: M.---Italian Lute, about 1580]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/377-Italian-Lute,-about-1580-q75-52x200.jpg "[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: M.---Italian Lute, about 1580]")
Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: M.—Italian Lute, about 1580
Judging by the tuning pins there are 17 strings on this instrument, but I’m not sure it’s wise to take the illustration too literally. [$]
![[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: E.---Quinterna, of Chiterna]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/377-Quinterna,-or-Chiterna-q75-85x200.jpg "[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: E.---Quinterna, of Chiterna]")
Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: E.—Quinterna, of Chiterna
The quinterna, or chiterna, made at Hamburg in 1539, is ornamented with tortoise-shell, ivory figures, and precious stones; it has ten strings of cat-gut.” (p. 368) [more...] [$]
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