Landells

EBENEZER LANDELLS (1808 - 1860)

Landells, the son of a Newcastle merchant, was a favourite pupil of Thomas Bewick (q.v.) in the 1820s. He moved to London in 1829, where he established a high reputation as an engraver. He retained a great love for Newcastle, as well as his Geordie accent, and was known as 'tooch-it-oop' to his affectionate staff.

It was Landells who originally thought up the idea of a London paper on the lines of Philippon's Paris Charivari. He submitted the idea to Henry Mayhew, and the first issue came out on 17 July 1841. Noted literary men like Thomas Hood and William Thackeray became contributors, and Landells was the first engraver for the paper. Originally a radical and abrasive paper, it gradually became less political. Tom Taylor (q.v.) the Sunderland-born dramatist and critic, was editor from 1874-80.

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EBENEZER LANDELLS (1808 - 1860) Landells, the son of a Newcastle merchant, was a favourite pupil of Thomas Bewick (q.v.) in the 1820s. He moved to London in 1829, where he established a high reputation as an engraver. He retained a great love for Newcastle, as well as his Geordie accent, and was known as 'tooch-it-oop' to his affectionate staff. It was Landells who originally thought up the idea of a London paper on the lines of Philippon's Paris Charivari. He submitted the idea to Henry Mayhew, and the first issue came out on 17 July 1841. Noted literary men like Thomas Hood and William Thackeray became contributors, and Landells was the first engraver for the paper. Originally a radical and abrasive paper, it gradually became less political. Tom Taylor (q.v.) the Sunderland-born dramatist and critic, was editor from 1874-80.
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