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

Doré's London: All 180 Illustrations from London, A Pilgrimage (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) by Doré, Gustave. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780486432724.

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 Doré, 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.