Featured Old W L Wyllie print/lithograph fancy ensemble

can anybody help with this fancy looking gold lithograph/print

couple of the pictures signed with w l wyllie

looking up close with loupe theres no ben day print dots

wondered who all the characters were, and what the picture is about

many thanks

 

How strange not to have names for all the oval portraits. It seems to show "modern" progress in 3 categories - ocean travel, land travel and city lighting. Maybe there is something on the reverse that might explain the connection between the progress scenes and the people pictured.

 

Bakers got her excellent answer in while I was typing this, which agrees with her.

Pairs of pictures depicting a couple of types of travel & a (city?) street as they used to be in some year & how they are now, X number of years later.

 

The combination of the graphic design and the progress pictures (particularly the bottom right which looks like it has a "horseless carriage" on the street) makes me think roughly 1900 for a date on this, maybe 1910.

 

In the 'after' pic of the street, think the streetlights have also been modernized to electric.

Time depicted & time made not necessarily the same. The men are not US presidents. Could be great inventors/engineers/mathematician who made the progress possible.

 

I think the "great inventors/engineers" is quite likely. I've been keeping an open mind on "where." I do not recognize any of the faces. British?

Edit - Especially because Wyllie was English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lionel_Wyllie

 

thanks for the input guys, yeah i was wondering what the correlation was, or what it was celebrating, hard to find a good way of describing it.

do you think its got any collectability ?

 

England was an early adopter of electric streetlights, although did not start in London. Wiki:

The first street to be lit by an incandescent lightbulb was Mosley Street, in Newcastle upon Tyne. The street was lit by Joseph Swan's incandescent lamp on 3 February 1879.[12] Consequently, Newcastle was the first city in the world to be fully lit up by lighting.[13] The first street to be lit with modern electricity as we know it was Electric Avenue in London's Brixton in 1880.

 

Probably best in the UK, but it sure would help to know the reason it was created in the first place. Book perhaps? How big is the the paper?

 

I'm sure it does. Silly us: all 3 pairs are about how transportation has changed.

 

hi, its 15" by 11, nothing on the back

do you think its a lithograph or some sort of early print

 

I can't tell for sure, but it does look like a lithograph (the colors, etc.).

 

From "The Illustrated London News 1897".
https://www.google.com/search?q=illustrated+london+news+1897

 

Great find, anund!

 

Yay! Her Majesty's Glorious Jubilee!!

http://www.museumoflondonprints.com...ilee-1897-the-record-number-of-a-record-reign

 

nice find mate, thanks

must have come from a book like this one

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HER-MAJE...547200?hash=item4b352ad700:g:kSgAAOSw-vlVl-QK

 

The portrait next to the train could be of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the engineering genius of the early Victorian era.
Just wanted to say that wonderful name.....

 

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, just wanted to say it myself as well !!

 

Great, isn't it!

 

Rolls of the tongue .. .. Joy.