‘Two More Whitechapel Horrors’ by an anonymous artist (original) (raw)

Two More Whitechapel Horrors

1888

Wood engraving, by an unknown engraver

The Illustrated Police News (13 September, 1888): front cover

This front cover typifies the newspaper’s visual reporting of the Whitechapel murders, which are presented in a montage of interlocked panels with lettering inserted into the scenes to provide further information. [Commentary continues below.]

Image scan and text by Simon Cooke

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