Description
hand-coloured wood engraving view from ‘The Illustrated London News’, Oct. 24, 1857 issue, pp.405.
One of two market scenes illustrations of Life at Manila. Here the butchers have made their purchases, and are waiting till all are loaded with their little bits of meat, which is so covered with flies as to be almost invisible. Nearly all the Chinamen in Manilla wear a kind of turban, and a great many let their hair fall down their backs. In the first of these scenes, the foremost figure on the right reminds us of the most popular sport of Manilla – cock-fighting.[Wirgman]
Founded by Herbert Ingram and first published on Saturday 14 May 1842, it was the world’s first illustrated magazine. The ILN was published weekly for most of its existence, switched to a less frequent publication schedule in 1971, and eventually ceased publication in 2003.
The company continues today as Illustrated London News Ltd, a publishing, content, and digital agency
in London, which holds the publication and business archives of the magazine.
Charles Wirgman (1832-1891) was an English artist and cartoonist, the creator of the Japan Punch and illustrator in China, the Philippine Islands, and Meiji period-Japan for the Illustrated London News.
