Frank Vizetelly

This article is about the journalist who disappeared in Sudan. For his nephew the lexicographer, see Frank Horace Vizetelly.

Frank Vizetelly

Frank Vizetelly (26 September 1830 – disappeared 5 November 1883)^[1] was a British journalist who reported in several parts of the world. He was presumed killed in Sudan during the Battle of Shaykan.

Biography

Frank was the son of James Henry Vizetelly (1790–1838), who founded a firm of Vizetelly & Company known for publishing George Cruikshank's Comic Almanack, and younger brother of James and Henry Vizetelly, both active in journalism and publishing. He was born in London and educated in Boulogne,^[2] and went to Paris in 1857.

There, he was an early editor of the French weekly newspaper Le Monde Illustré. From 1859, he was employed as a war correspondent and artist by the Illustrated London News, founded by his older brother, Henry. He traveled to Italy, Spain, and America, where he reported from both sides of the Civil War, and Egypt.^[3][4][5]

He disappeared, presumed killed, during the massacre of Hicks Pasha's army in Sudan.^[4]

References

1. Leslie Stephen. Frank Vizetelly in The Dictionary of National Biography. Macmillan, 1899, page 386
2. Roth, Mitchel P. (1997). "Vizetelly, Frank". Historical Dictionary of War Journalism. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. pp. 328–329. ISBN 0-313-29171-3.
3. The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica . "Vizetelly family". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
4. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Vizetelly, Henry" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 165.
5. Manning, Martin J., and Clarence R. Wyatt. Encyclopedia of Media and Propaganda in Wartime America. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2011, Volume 1, pp. 370–372

Further reading

• Abraham Lincoln's contemporaries: Frank Vizetelly, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, 1961
• Bostick, Douglas W. The Confederacy's Secret Weapon: The Civil War Illustrations of Frank Vizetelly. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2009.
• Hoole, William Stanley. Vizetelly Covers the Confederacy. Tuscaloosa, Ala: Confederate Pub. Co, 1957.

External links

• Works by Frank Vizetelly in New York Public Library
• Drawing the War: Frank Vizetelly, Emerging Civil War