Frank Vizetelly
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{{About|the journalist who disappeared in Sudan|his nephew the lexicographer|Frank Horace Vizetelly}}
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Frank Vizetelly (26 September 1830 – disappeared 5 November 1883)Leslie Stephen. [https://books.google.com/books?id=kicJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA386 Frank Vizetelly] in The Dictionary of National Biography. Macmillan, 1899, page 386 was a British journalist who reported in several parts of the world. He was presumed killed in Sudan during the Battle of Shaykan.
Biography
Frank was the son of James Henry Vizetelly (1790–1838), who founded a firm of Vizetelly & Company known for publishing George Cruikshank's Comic Almanack, and younger brother of James and Henry Vizetelly, both active in journalism and publishing. He was born in London, educated in Boulogne,{{cite book |author=Roth, Mitchel P.|chapter=Vizetelly, Frank|title=Historical Dictionary of War Journalism|pages=328–329|year=1997|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, CT|isbn=0-313-29171-3
|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Og8-5_oqumYC&pg=PA328}} and went to Paris in 1857.
There, he was an early editor of the French weekly newspaper Le Monde Illustré. From 1859, he was employed as a war correspondent and artist by the Illustrated London News, founded by his older brother, Henry. He traveled to Italy, Spain, and America, where he reported from both sides of the Civil War, and Egypt.{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Vizetelly-family |title=Vizetelly family |author=((The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica ))|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=27 September 2018}}{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Vizetelly, Henry|volume=28|page=165}}Manning, Martin J., and Clarence R. Wyatt. [https://books.google.com/books?id=c4D1VD4x9M4C&dq=The%20Confederacy's%20Secret%20Weapon%3A%20The%20Civil%20War%20Illustrations%20of%20Frank%20Vizetelly&pg=PA370 Encyclopedia of Media and Propaganda in Wartime America]. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2011, Volume 1, pp. 370–372
He disappeared, presumed killed, during the massacre of Hicks Pasha's army in Sudan.
References
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Further reading
- [https://archive.org/details/abrahamlincolnscfvlinc/page/n1 Abraham Lincoln's contemporaries: Frank Vizetelly], Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, 1961
- Bostick, Douglas W. The Confederacy's Secret Weapon: The Civil War Illustrations of Frank Vizetelly. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2009.
- Hoole, William Stanley. Vizetelly Covers the Confederacy. Tuscaloosa, Ala: Confederate Pub. Co, 1957.
External links
- [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?filters%5BnamePart_mtxt_s%5D%5B%5D=Vizetelly%2C%20Frank%2C%201830-1883&keywords=&layout=false# Works by Frank Vizetelly in New York Public Library]
- [https://emergingcivilwar.com/2012/04/04/drawing-the-war-part-3-frank-vizetelly/ Drawing the War: Frank Vizetelly], Emerging Civil War
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