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.

[1] The magazine 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.

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.

[6] The long list of regular illustrators included the painters Alejandro Ferrant, Enrique Simonet and Valeriano Bécquer, and humorous cartoonists such as Francisco Ortego Vereda.