Penny Illustrated Paper

illustrated London weekly newspaper that ran from 1861 to 1913.

With the abolition of paper duty in 1861 it was possible to envisage an even cheaper mass-circulation illustrated weekly.

The first issue, 12 October 1861, announced itself confidently under the masthead "PENNY ILLUSTRATED PAPER: With All the News of the Week": "A new era opens upon the people.

In producing a paper for the million, let us plainly say, we want be esteemed the friend of the people ... A new era is opened to us by the Repeal of the Paper Duties"[1] The paper was apparently initially the charge of Ebenezer Farrington,[2] but the wife and sons of the recently deceased Herbert Ingram, proprietors of the Illustrated London News, also seem to have been behind the venture.

[1] A well-known work by Harry B. Neilson, Mr Fox's Hunt Breakfast on Xmas Day, was created for issuing as a chromolithograph with the Christmas edition of the Penny Illustrated Paper in December 1897.