LUDGATE CIRCUS LONDRES (088) 1916
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Gustave Doré, Ludgate Hill - a block in the street: 1872
Ludgate Hill, from ''London, a Pilgrimage'', written by William Blanchard Jerrold (1826-94) pub. 187
London: A Pilgrimage'
was conceived in 1868 by the journalist and playwright Blanchard
Jerrold. Accompanied by the famous artist Gustave Dore, Jerrold prowled
every corner of the heaving metropolis, sometimes with plain-clothes
police for protection. 'London: A Pilgrimage' is a forgotten classic of
social journalism, a frank and brutal look at the poverty striken,
gin-swilling London of the nineteenth century, written in a perceptive,
bold and gripping style.
180 incredible etchings by Dore escort Jerrold on his odyssey through the pulsating city, into the Lambeth gas works, seedy opium dens and grubby bathing houses; peering curiously into the desperate lives of the flower sellers, lavender girls and organ grinders. 'London: A Pilgrimage' is an enlightening work that brings to life the chaotic and gloomy past of a great city on the cusp of modern times.
Peter Ackroyd's excellent introduction sheds further light on the period and the context in which Jerrold and Dore felt compelled to reveal to the world the squalor into which London was slowly sinking.
180 incredible etchings by Dore escort Jerrold on his odyssey through the pulsating city, into the Lambeth gas works, seedy opium dens and grubby bathing houses; peering curiously into the desperate lives of the flower sellers, lavender girls and organ grinders. 'London: A Pilgrimage' is an enlightening work that brings to life the chaotic and gloomy past of a great city on the cusp of modern times.
Peter Ackroyd's excellent introduction sheds further light on the period and the context in which Jerrold and Dore felt compelled to reveal to the world the squalor into which London was slowly sinking.
Ludgate Hill - a block in the street: 1872 (Pennell):
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Lithograph, printed on Ingres paper. Circa 1920.
In the style of Frank Brangwyn :
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