Sporting, England vs Wales Rugby Game, The London Illustrated News, c1892

Reproduction from The Illustrated London News, c1892

Date: c1892

Publisher: Published in London

Paper Size: 187 x 120mm

Condition: good

Technique: Wood engraving with later hand colouring

Price: $7 

The Illustrated London News

The Illustrated London News, funded by Herbert Ingram, began weekly publication in 1842 as a primarily conservative learning paper and was the world’s first illustrated newspaper. Its extensive coverage of the royal family’s tours, lives, and deaths earned the paper popularity.

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Before the Rugby Football Union was established in 1895 by paid players to make up for missing wages at their primary employment, England and Wales played one another in an early game. Welsh Rugby League kept the top Welsh players by paying them covertly.