Organisation
The Graphic
- Slug
- the-graphic-43
- Alternative names
- Unknown
- Organisation type
- Unknown
- Founding date
- 1868-01-01
- Dissolution date
- 1932-01-01
- Location
- Unknown
- Languages
- Unknown
The Graphic was a British weekly illustrated newspaper, first published on 4 December 1869 by William Luson Thomas’s company Illustrated Newspapers Ltd. It was set up as a rival to the popular Illustrated London News. The influence of The Graphic within the art world was immense; its many admirers included Vincent van Gogh and Hubert von Herkomer. The Graphic was published on a Saturday and its original cover price was sixpence, while the Illustrated London News was fivepence.[2] In its first year, it described itself to advertisers as “a superior illustrated weekly newspaper, containing twenty-four pages imperial folio, printed on fine toned paper of beautiful quality, made expressly for the purpose and admirably adapted for the display of engravings”.
In addition to its home market the paper had subscribers all around the British Empire and North America. The Graphic covered home news and news from around the Empire, and devoted much attention to literature, arts, sciences, the fashionable world, sport, music and opera. Royal occasions and national celebrations and ceremonials were also given prominent coverage.