I found a few other paintings that depict the way that news was disseminated in the past.
A street news seller goes about his daily business hawking newspapers with shouts that were barely intelligible. In this memory I have highlighted the Suez Crisis of 1956 – often the sight of the news placard or the hawker holding up a freshly printed evening news was the first anyone heard of what was happening in the world when they came off shift in the mills.