Illustrated London News Supplement, June 18, 1853

¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 Introduction

¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 The Illustrated London News Supplement is a very interesting read because it contains a variety of information from criticism about paintings of the time to the abolishment of slavery in the British Empire. For the most part the issue is a compilation of a news stories on each page that have barely any resemblance of the previous page. Also, most of this is written from the first-person point of view.

¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 The first page of this newspaper goes into different art forms and list several paintings. Many artists have their own unique ways of making paintings and often did many of them so many could be on display at once. However, how artists got famous with their craft was to display them at art exhibitions to entertain the public. This exhibition is where the artists would get commissioned to do art pieces that would often lead to most of them starting their official painting careers.

¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 The next page is mostly about criticizing art pieces for either being to monotone or not having enough details. However, we do move into a little bit of architecture and some sculptures, specifically a mosque in the city of Isfahan.  Isfahan is in Iran along with the city of Istanbul, formerly known as the city of Constantinople, which fell to the Ottomans.  The Ottomans represented another kingdom that rivaled Rome and eventually would take most of the Eastern Roman Empire before they fell.

¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 After that page came a page about parities for sailors and trade routes. At this time when ships sailed into port, they were welcomed with a celebration of a successful voyage. The particular voyage discussed in the London Illustrated Times Supplement was from the United States to Great Britain. However, this happened wherever ships sailed because the people on shore wanted to see their loved ones after being separated for months and by thousands of miles. The main talk of this page was trade routes between countries and how the world economy could benefit if everyone had something to trade and they all could make money.

¶ 6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 Page Four is mostly about how the English traded with Africa on the gold coast, which is in present day Ghana. Which this was a key launching point for the slave operations that were going on until the British decided to abolish slavery and this colony turned more into a trading post and this trading post soon turned into the British-controlled Sierra Leon, located near . Liberia and Guinea, which were also at the time under British control.

¶ 7 Leave a comment on paragraph 7 0 This page also talks about the French Revolution and how the British refused to get involved because they had just come out of hundred-year war.  A little bit of history here is the British populous were divided on the question of what to do about the beheading of the King and Queen of France. Most of the lower class supported the Revolution while the emerging middle class and established upper class were against spending money on another pointless war.

¶ 8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 0 Page six focuses on industrialization and modernizing equipment.  Scientists started making advancements in technology, chemistry, and other science fields during this time period.  As we move to the next page people are thinking of ways to make their lives easier and start inventing.  This is the period of the Industrial Revolution and one of these inventors was Louis Daguerre, who was the inventor of one of the first photographic processes, the Daguerreotype. Pictures were not cheap to take; however, it was a lot more cost and time effective than hiring a painter to paint a family portrait, which would take days to complete.

¶ 9 Leave a comment on paragraph 9 0 This Supplement is an enlightening timeline of events from the period.