Doré's London: All 180 Illustrations from London, A Pilgrimage (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

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 Frances 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 watermans 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.