Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News was a British weekly magazine founded in 1874 and published in London.

[1] The paper covered, as its title indicates, both sporting and theatrical events, including news and criticism.

[4][5] In 1883, the paper published a cartoon showing Oscar Wilde in convict dress, which was considered at the time to be a very serious slur.

[7] The paper is a good source of illustrations from sporting and theatre events, such as images of horse racing.

[10] The magazine's published fiction included W. S. Gilbert's short piece, Actors, Authors and Audiences in 1880's Holly Leaves, its annual Christmas special,[11] Bram Stoker's The Squaw (1893) and Crooken Sands (1894), Agatha Christie's story The Unbreakable Alibi in Holly Leaves of 1928, and her Sing a Song of Sixpence in the following year's Holly Leaves.

Wood-engraving of 1874's 2,000 Guineas Stakes from May 1874 Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
Wood-engraving by D. H. Friston of a scene from W. S. Gilbert 's play Sweethearts , from the issue of 24 November 1874
Wood-engraving by Friston of scene from Gilbert and Sullivan 's Trial by Jury from the issue of 1 May 1875