{"id":1357,"date":"2022-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2022-11-30T16:51:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:51:51","slug":"illustrated-london-news-christmas-supplement-1855","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/2022\/12\/08\/illustrated-london-news-christmas-supplement-1855\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustrated London News Christmas Supplement, 1855 #ChristmasCountdown Door no. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: #eeeeee\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/12\/19th-C.-Coll.-030-ILL-729.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1433\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/12\/19th-C.-Coll.-030-ILL-729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"550\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Front cover of Christmas Supplement to Illustrated London News (19th Century Collection, 19th C. Coll 030ILL)<em>&#8220;While shepherds watched their flocks by night, &#8211; All seated on the ground&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Front page from the Christmas Supplement to the Illustrated London News, 22nd December 1855. Illustration drawn by J. Gilbert and printed by George C. Leighton Red Lion Square.<\/p>\n<p>The pages of the Christmas Supplement consisted of an 8 page insert, containing a full colour cover and 3 additional full page colour images printed from woodblocks by George C. Leighton (who was seen to be the most prolific graphic artist of his day). Leighton&#8217;s production of these colour images demonstrated that colour printing could be done in large quantities to meet the high circulation of the Illustrated London News at a low cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Front cover of Christmas Supplement to Illustrated London News (19th Century Collection, 19th C. Coll 030ILL)&#8220;While shepherds watched their flocks by night, &#8211; All seated on the ground&#8221; Front page from the Christmas Supplement to the Illustrated London News, 22nd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/2022\/12\/08\/illustrated-london-news-christmas-supplement-1855\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[197,76,319,169,189],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-countdown","tag-christmascountdown","tag-christmas","tag-george-leighton","tag-illustrated-london-news","tag-print"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3696,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/3696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}