11
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
H Beard Print Collection is a 11 by The Illustrated London News, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print comes from a long-running London news weekly. It shows a page about the opera season at Covent Garden with one article and two pictures. They drew a funny trick to show how Rhine Maidens “swim” in Wagner’s Das Rheingold. The back of the sheet has two odd animal pictures. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum for other prints like this.
A page from an illustrated review features an article and images covering the opera season at Covent Garden, including a piece on how the Rhine Maidens swim in the opening of *Das Rheingold*.
Read the full account in the museum source.
The Illustrated London News, founded by Herbert Ingram and first published on Saturday 14 May 1842, was the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine.
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