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The Graphic : an illustrated weekly newspaper.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

14/3950

Variant Title

Graphic

Imprint

London: The Graphic, 1869-1881

Physical Description

24 v. : ill. ; 36 cm.

Extent of Holdings

Vol. 1, no. 1 (4 Dec 1869)--Vol. 24, no. 631 (Saturday 31 December 1881)

General Note

Absorbed by : The Sphere, in July 1932.

Numbering peculiarities

Volume numbers change every six months, in January and July.

Summary Note

The Graphic was a British weekly illustrated newspaper, first published on 4 December 1869 by William Luson Thomas's company Illustrated Newspapers Limited. It continued to be published weekly under this title until 23 April 1932 and then changed title to The National Graphic between 28 April and 14 July 1932; it then ceased publication, after 3,266 issues. From 1890 until 1926, Luson Thomas's company, H. R. Baines and Co., published The Daily Graphic.

Artists employed on The Graphic and The Daily Graphic included Helen Allingham, Edmund Blampied, Alexander Boyd, Frank Brangwyn, Randolph Caldecott, Léon Daviel, John Charles Dollman, James H. Dowd, Godefroy Durand, Luke Fildes, Harry Furniss, John Percival Gülich, George du Maurier, Phil May, George Percy Jacomb-Hood, Ernest Prater, Leonard Raven-Hill, Sidney Sime, Snaffles (Charles Johnson Payne), George Stampa, Edmund Sullivan, Bert Thomas, F. H. Townsend, Harrison Weir, and Henry Woods.

Writers for the paper included George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, H. Rider Haggard and Anthony Trollope. Malcolm Charles Salaman was employed there from 1890 to 1899. Beatrice Grimshaw travelled the South Pacific reporting on her experiences for the Daily Graphic. Mary Frances Billington served the Graphic as a special correspondent from 1890 to 1897, reporting from India in essays that were compiled into Woman in India (1895). Joseph Ashby-Sterry wrote the Bystander column for the paper for 18 years.

Supplements

Supplements are unnumbered.
Special supplementary numbers occasionally printed to commemorate special occasions, e.g. Royal weddings. Additionally, an annual supplement (called 'The Graphic : Special Christmas number') was published each year throughout the magazine's life. From 1878 onwards, a July supplement (called 'The Graphic : Special Summer number') was published annually.

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