Illustrated Sydney News

The Illustrated Sydney News

Front page of the newspaper's first edition
Type	Monthly newspaper
Founder(s)	Walter George Mason William Edward Vernon Ludolf Theodore Mellin
Editor	Philip Holdsworth
Founded	8 October 1853 (1853-10-08)
Language	English
Ceased publication	10 February 1894 (1894-02-10)
City	Sydney
Country	Australia
Media of Australia List of newspapers

The Illustrated Sydney News was a monthly English language newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

History

First published on 8 October 1853 by Walter George Mason (1820 – 12 March 1866),^[1] 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.^[2][3][4]

The first edition received mixed reviews in the Sydney Morning Herald.^[5]

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.^[6] Mellin, was a native of Braunschweig in Germany. He was a contemporary of Luise Löbbecke [de], the German social reformer.^[7] 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.^[8]

Supplement July 1882

A Glimpse of the Future, 1893

Philip Holdsworth was editor from the 1880s.^[9] Until 1888, the illustrations were wood engravings, each printed in black ink and each of which took one engraver about a week to complete.^[10] In August 1888, The Illustrated Sydney News became the first Australian paper to reproduce a photograph using the new half-tone process. The slow and expensive wood engraving process was obsolete.^[3]

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.^[11]

Digitisation

The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program^[12] project at the National Library of Australia.^[13]

A list of illustrations of maritime interest to be found in the Illustrated Sydney News has been made by the Australian National Maritime Museum.^[14]

Individual issues can be viewed online at Trove.^[15]

See also

• List of newspapers in Australia

References

1. "Telegraphic". The Brisbane Courier. Vol. XX, no. 2, 536. Queensland, Australia. 14 March 1866. p. 2. Retrieved 15 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia. Mason was wood engraver, uncle of Arthur Mason
2. Illustrated Sydney News, Dictionary of Sydney
3. Dowling, Peter (1998). "The Culture of Newspapers: The Slow Birth of the Modern Newspaper in Australia, 1890-1940". Retrieved 28 November 2012.
4. Chronology significant Australian Newspaper Events
5. "GOLD CIRCULAR". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 10 October 1853. p. 2. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
6. "The Citizen - newspaper". Retrieved 17 December 2018.
7. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luise_Löbbecke,Luise Löbbecke‘'
8. "Australian Dictionary of Biography Mellin, Ludolph Theodore (1826–1895)". Retrieved 17 December 2018.
9. Heseltine, H. P. "Holdsworth, Philip Joseph (1851–1902)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
10. Illustrated Sydney News, The University of Sydney
11. The birth of the newspaper in Australia Archived October 21, 2012, at the Wayback Machine (accessed 27 November 2012)
12. Australian Newspapers Digitisation Project
13. Brown, Jerelynn (2011). "Tabloids in the State Library of NSW collection: A reflection of life in Australia". Australian Journal of Communication. 38 (2): 107–121.
14. "Illustrations of Maritime Interest" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 January 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
15. Illustrated Sydney News (NSW : 1853–1872) at Trove

External links

• Illustrated Sydney News (NSW : 1853–1872) at Trove
• 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