© 2016 Universidad Catolica Silva Henriquez. All rights reserved.This article explores a set of visual print representations coined and issued during the War of the Triple Alliance (or Paraguayan War) (1865-1870). In order to study those visual representations, we attend to a number of facts: War concurs with the generalization of same technical innovations in the field of printing and mass reproduction of images; it was one of the big international news moments in the area; it questioned concepts such as "national" and "regional"; lastly, it allows to see how newspapers developed different verbal and visual rethorics. Second part of the article explores specifically Paraguayan illustrated press.