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''The Illustrated Sydney News'' was a monthly English language newspaper published in Sydney,
Philip Holdsworth was editor from the 1880s.
Until 1888, the illustrations were
Other NSW newspapers
from the National Library of Australia *Press timeline: Select chronology of significant Australian press events to 2011.
The birth of the newspaper in Australia
*Isaacs, Victor, Kirkpatrick, Rod and Russell, John (2004)
Australian Newspaper History: A Bibliography
*Isaacs, Victor; Kirkpatrick, Rod,
Illustrated Sydney News Index to Illustrations of ships, ports and places, and other items of general maritime interest 1853 to 1889 inclusive
(1990) Compiled by Vaughan Evans *Two hundred years of Sydney newspapers: A short history, Rural Press Ltd Defunct newspapers published in Sydney Newspapers established in 1853 1853 establishments in Australia
New South Wales
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, Australia.
History
First published on 8 October 1853 by Walter George Mason (1820 – 12 March 1866), William Edward Vernon and Ludolf Theodore Mellin. ''The Illustrated Sydney News'' was published from 1853 to 1872. From 1872 to 1881 the title was changed to ''The Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturist and Grazier'' and then back to the original shorter title between 1881 and 1894. The first edition received mixed reviews in the '' Sydney Morning Herald''. Edward Vernon and Ludolf Mellin sold their shares of the paper within six months of its first publication and embarked on a new publication '' The Goulburn Chronicle and Southern Advertiser''. Vernon had previously collaborated with William Kennedy between 1846–1847 to produce ''The Citizen'' in Sydney. Mellin, was a native of Braunschweig in Germany. He was a contemporary of , the German social reformer. He was also the son-in-law of Francis Cunninghame who, with Edward Hawksley, established '' The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator'' in 1848.
Philip Holdsworth was editor from the 1880s.
Until 1888, the illustrations were wood engraving
Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image or ''matrix'' of images into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and ...
s, each printed in black ink and each of which took one engraver about a week to complete. In August 1888, ''The Illustrated Sydney News'' became the first Australian paper to reproduce a photograph using the new half-tone
Halftone is the reprographic technique that simulates continuous-tone imagery through the use of dots, varying either in size or in spacing, thus generating a gradient-like effect.Campbell, Alastair. The Designer's Lexicon. ©2000 Chronicle, ...
process. The slow and expensive wood engraving process was obsolete.
Publishing in the NSW colony
Most material published in the first twenty years of the New South Wales colony notified soldiers, convicts and private settlers contained "government orders" printed on a portable wooden and iron printing press and displayed or announced aloud in public places and in churches.Digitisation
The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project at theNational Library of Australia
The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "mainta ...
.
A list of illustrations of maritime interest to be found in the Illustrated Sydney News has been made by the Australian National Maritime Museum
The Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) is a federally operated maritime museum in Darling Harbour, Sydney. After considering the idea of establishing a maritime museum, the federal government announced that a national maritime museum wou ...
.
Individual issues can be viewed online at Trove
Trove is an Australian online library database owned by the National Library of Australia in which it holds partnerships with source providers National and State Libraries Australia, an aggregator and service which includes full text documen ...
.
See also
* List of newspapers in AustraliaReferences
External links
*{{Trove newspaper, 107, Illustrated Sydney News, NSW : 1853–1872Other NSW newspapers
from the National Library of Australia *Press timeline: Select chronology of significant Australian press events to 2011.
The birth of the newspaper in Australia
*Isaacs, Victor, Kirkpatrick, Rod and Russell, John (2004)
Australian Newspaper History: A Bibliography
*Isaacs, Victor; Kirkpatrick, Rod,
Illustrated Sydney News Index to Illustrations of ships, ports and places, and other items of general maritime interest 1853 to 1889 inclusive
(1990) Compiled by Vaughan Evans *Two hundred years of Sydney newspapers: A short history, Rural Press Ltd Defunct newspapers published in Sydney Newspapers established in 1853 1853 establishments in Australia