Rain Bow Gallery

A Land Of Sunshine

The Victoria Falls on the Zambesi River, South Africa, have been described by many travellers as The Eighth Wonder of the World. They are more than a mile in the width and the height of the actual falls varies from 250 to 400 feet. In their natural beauty they are at once sublime and awe-inspiring and mark the culmination of grandeur in a country famed for its scenery. Edmund Blampied (1886-1966) produced numerous illustrations for ILN magazines. As well as scenes of typical London life published in The Illustrated London News, he specialised in showing the privileged class at fashionable resorts around the world, notably the Riviera, for The Bystander

© Estate of Edmund Blampied/ILN/Mary Evans

Balloon event, Charles Green, Aylesbury

Grand Aerostatic Fete at Aylesbury, 416th Balloon Ascent by Mr Charles Green in his Royal Victoria Balloon. From a spacious meadow belonging to Mr T J Hinds of the Black Swan Inn, Cambridge Street, Aylesbury. A parachute containing a living animal will be launched from the car. With music from the Royal Thame Brass Band.
11 July 1849

© The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library)/Mary Evans

Shepherdesses by E. H. Shepard

Gorgeous illustration, a homage to the title of the magazine, The Sketch Book, with shepherdesses in varying states of dress and undress temporarily leave the pages of E. H. Shepard's own sketch book to pass a fleeting hour in this dull world of ours

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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