Illustrations by Gustave Doré for Douglas Jerrold's London: A Pilgrimage

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Gustave Doré (1833–83) signed a contract for the five-year project London: A Pilgrimage with the London publishers, Grant and Company, for which he was paid the huge sum of £10,000 a year for the three years that the proposed work would require. — Philip V. Allingham

London docks and warehouses The Docks — The Concordia St. Katherine's Dock The Great Warehouse — St. Katherine's Dock Limehouse Dock The Docks — Night Scene Warehouses by the Thames Porters at Work Billingsgate Street Warehousing in the City Crowded streets and slums Over London — By Rail A City Thoroughfare The Tide of Business in the City A River Side Street Dark House Lane — Billingsgate Pickle Herring Street Bishopgate's Street Dudley Street, Seven Dials The Devil's Acre — Westminster Factories and industrial work Lambeth Potteries Mixing the Malt

Street people and the working poor Lemonade Vendor The Rag Merchant's Home Resting on the Bridge A Waterman's Family A Chimney Sweep Leisure activities, high and low Holland House — a Garden Party Hyde Park Corner — The Row Hyde Park Corner — Picadilly Entrance. Opium Smoking — the Lascar's Room in “Edwin Drood” The Thames and its Bridges Hayboats on the Thames London Bridge, 1872 The Houses of Parliament by Night Victoria Embankment Miscellaneous Title-page St. Paul's from the Brewery Bridge The Fountain — Broad Sanctuary The Workmen's Train The Bull’s-eye Scripture Reading in a Night Refuge Related material Gustave Doré, The Graphic, and Social Realism of the Seventies and Eighties

Bibliography

Jerrold, Blanchard, and Gustave Doré. London: A Pilgrimage. London: Grant & Co., 1872.

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