London, a pilgrimage
By: by Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold.
Contributors: Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883, illus.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: London (England) -- Social life and customs; London (England) -- Description and travel
Description: London in the middle of the 1800s was a subject endlessly sketched by artists, studied by social reformers, and discussed by writers. This comprehensive collection of drawings by Gustave Dor,̌ France's most celebrated graphic artist of the period, presents a panoramic portrait of that engrossing city - from fashionable ladies riding in a sunlit park to ragged wretches in a shadowy side street. Here are amazingly perceptive sketches of workaday London, busy market places, the Christy Minstrels, a waterman's family, thieves gambling, the Devils' Acre in Westminster, flower girls, waifs and strays, a wedding at the Abbey, provincials in search of lodgings, a garden party, prisoners in the Newgate exercise yard, stalls at Covent Garden Opera House, and many other scenes that capture the London of a bygone era.
Notes: Originally published in 1872, with a new introd. by M. Rose.