ABSTRACT
Chapter three, ‘Foreign images of a national war,’ is the first of two case-study chapters that demonstrate how important news events became part of a transnational visual news culture in the nineteenth century. Chapter 3 concerns the visual representation of the Crimean War in the British Cassell’s Illustrated Family Paper. Selling around 500,000 copies a week in 1854, 450,000 more than The Times and 350,000 more than the Illustrated London News, selling and publishing 361 images related to the war, Cassell’s can be seen as the most important shaper of the image of the Crimean War in Britain. However, the images of the war were not ‘British’ at all. Although John Cassell claimed that the illustrations were exclusively produced for his periodical, he bought 295 of them from the French l’Illustration.
