La Ilustración Española y Americana

La Ilustración Española y Americana

Cover from January, 1870
Frequency Weekly
First issue 1869
Final issue 1921
Country Spain
Based in Madrid
Language Spanish
ISSN 1889-8394

La Ilustración Española y Americana was a weekly Spanish magazine that was published from 1869 to 1921 on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 30th of every month.

History

It was a continuation of El Museo Universal, which was published from 1857 to 1869,[1] and was modeled after prestigious European publications such as L'Illustration and Le Monde Illustré in France, the Illustrirte Zeitung in Germany, and L'Illustrazione Italiana.

On its masthead, it was described as a magazine of "sciences, arts, literature, trade and useful knowledge". It was founded in 1869 in Madrid by Abelardo de Carlos, a writer and entrepreneur who had previously published two other magazines (La Revista Médica and La Moda Elegante e Ilustrada). Three years later, the building where it was printed collapsed, killing three people, so Carlos rebuilt with a new, state-of-the-art press. He served as the magazine's Director until 1881, when management passed to his sons Abelardo and Isidro, and he died in 1884.

Among the major writers who made contributions may be numbered José Zorrilla, Ramón de Campoamor, Juan Valera, Leopoldo Alas, Ramón del Valle-Inclán and Miguel de Unamuno.[2] Regular political and journalistic contributors included Emilio Castelar and Manuel Cañete.

Contents

Abelardo de Carlos

As its name would indicate, it was profusely illustrated with scenes from daily life in Spain and Latin America, where it was also distributed. It became an "authentic school for masters of the graphic arts". Bernardo Rico y Ortega, an engraver and brother of the painter, Martín Rico, was the Artistic Director; responsible for the magazine's design and printing.

The variety of themes encouraged specialization among the magazine's artistic contributors, such as Josep Lluís Pellicer who, like the later photojournalists of the 20th century, produced first-hand scenes from the Third Carlist War and the Russo-Turkish War.

The long list of regular illustrators included the painters Alejandro Ferrant, Enrique Simonet and Valeriano Bécquer, and humorous cartoonists such as Francisco Ortego Vereda. Also notable were engravings based on images by the French-born photographer Jean Laurent.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Lou Charnon-Deutsch (2008). Hold That Pose: Visual Culture in the Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish Periodical. Pennsylvania State University Press.
  2. ↑ Miguel B. Márquez, Abelardo de Carlos y "La Ilustración Española y Americana", from Ámbitos #13-14 (2005), ISSN 1139-1979 online
  3. ↑ Jesús María Sanchidrián Gallego, Ávila romántica: Ávila monumental, artística y pintoresca en la fotografía de J. Laurent (1864-1886). Piedra Caballera. ISBN 978-84-613-5859-5.

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