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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: 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.
[$]![[picture: Opening of a New Promenade and Drinking-Fountain at Blackpool, Lancashire]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/460-Opening-of-a-new-Promenade-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Opening of a New Promenade and Drinking-Fountain at Blackpool, Lancashire]")
Opening of a New Promenade and Drinking-Fountain at Blackpool, Lancashire
The engraving shows soldiers, a marching band, flags and banners, triumphal arches and crowds, with the Clifton Arms Hotel in the background. The Clifton Arms Hotel was being rebuilt, and here I think we have the new building on the left and the old, much smaller building on the right. The New [...] [more...]
[$]![[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: N.---Viola di Bordone]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/377-Viola-di-Bordone-q75-69x200.jpg "[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: N.---Viola di Bordone]")
Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: N.—Viola di Bordone
A Violoa di Bordone is a stringed musical instrument played with a bow. It is a sort of viol with cat-gut strings, but with a second, parallel set of metal strings. The metal strings are not played with the bow directly, but resonate in [more...] [$]
![[picture: Pheasants]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/345-pheasants-q85-267x200.jpg "[picture: Pheasants]")
The collection of living pheasants belonging to the Zoological Society of London has just been enriched by the arrival of fine examples of the males of two new species. At the meeting of the society, on Thursday 24th ult. [i.e. March 1870], Mr. Sclater read a paper concerning these remarkable [...] [more...]
![[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: O.---Harp-Lute]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/377-Harp-Lute-85x200.jpg "[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: O.---Harp-Lute]")
Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: O.—Harp-Lute
“The instrument called a harp-lute, with twelve strings, was invented by Edward Light, of London, about seventy years ago, and was designed for accompanying vocal [...] [more...]
[$]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.
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