Vizetelly, Frank, 1830-1883
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Frank Vizetelly was an artist and British war correspondent for "The Illustrated London News" (ILN) serving in Italy, in Spain, in the American Civil War, in Austria, and later in Egypt. He was one of the few reporters who served his paper within the Confederate lines during the American Civil War, reporting pictorially from the South and known as a newspaper "special artist." He disappeared during a British military disaster in the Sudan in November of 1883.
From the guide to the Frank Vizetelly drawings, 1861-1865 and undated., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)
Frank Vizetelly was an artist and British war correspondent for "The Illustrated London News" (ILN), serving in Italy, in Spain, in the American Civil War, in Austria, and later in Egypt. He was one of the few reporters who served his paper within the Confederate lines during the Civil War, reporting pictorially from the South and known as a newspaper "special artist." He disappeared during a British military disaster in the Sudan in November of 1883.
From the description of Frank Vizetelly drawings, 1861-1865 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612193972
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