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This complete collection of Gustave Dore's illustrations from `London, a Pilgimage' can, at first sight, seem a grim, depressing and often harrowing experience. The squalor and poverty are here writ large and communicated with Dore's unerring sense of detail and style. Life by the river, in the docks and in the dark satanic industrial settings of gas works, potteries or brewery - never mind the unremitting hardship of a beggar's life on the streets of the East End or scraping a living in a rag merchant's home - are all drawn with a true eye and a deep compassion for the plight of the poor.
But Dore loved London. He loved its bustle, its vigour, the life of it all. He relished the juxtaposition and interactions of the different classes at the great `days out' like Derby Day on the Epsom Downs or the Varsity boat race on the river. He relished the grandeur of the big occasion in Westminster Abbey, with the choir like shades of the underworld or dimly lit angels, dwarfed by the architecture. London Bridge, Ludgate Hill and Piccadilly are crammed with traffic and people to create jams as gridlocked as anything you'd find today. Occasionally a Romantic streak creeps in with Whittington waiting above his destiny on Highgate Hill or the Arcadian dream of `London under Green Leaves'. But it is the honesty of his portrayals of the underclasses, their slums and their dark, narrow, foggy streets that stick in the memory. This is the London of Mayhew and Dickens - witness the magical depiction of the opium den from `Edwin Drood' with its cherubically beaming, under-lit lascar.
Throughout these 180 black-and-white illustrations one senses the honesty of the vision as well as the skill and artistry of one of the most talented graphic artists of his generation. Here, one feels, is as true a depiction of mid-Victorian London in all its guises as one could ever find in Dickens or Mayhew.
But Dore loved London. He loved its bustle, its vigour, the life of it all. He relished the juxtaposition and interactions of the different classes at the great `days out' like Derby Day on the Epsom Downs or the Varsity boat race on the river. He relished the grandeur of the big occasion in Westminster Abbey, with the choir like shades of the underworld or dimly lit angels, dwarfed by the architecture. London Bridge, Ludgate Hill and Piccadilly are crammed with traffic and people to create jams as gridlocked as anything you'd find today. Occasionally a Romantic streak creeps in with Whittington waiting above his destiny on Highgate Hill or the Arcadian dream of `London under Green Leaves'. But it is the honesty of his portrayals of the underclasses, their slums and their dark, narrow, foggy streets that stick in the memory. This is the London of Mayhew and Dickens - witness the magical depiction of the opium den from `Edwin Drood' with its cherubically beaming, under-lit lascar.
Throughout these 180 black-and-white illustrations one senses the honesty of the vision as well as the skill and artistry of one of the most talented graphic artists of his generation. Here, one feels, is as true a depiction of mid-Victorian London in all its guises as one could ever find in Dickens or Mayhew.
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It's impossible to look at these remarkable images of Victorian London without Dickens coming to mind sooner or later. In common with the writer's novels, all of London is depicted in this collection of Dore's engravings - a vast, sprawling, teeming mass. Like Dickens, Dore seems to see everything and it exercises on him the same repulsed fascination. Technically these are of course of the highest order; his facility for catching character, movement, inidviduality and particularity in a crowd is remarkable. More remarkable is the capturing and evocation of a place - swarming with life of all kinds, often dark and uncomfortable, but always extraordinary and endlessly engrossing.
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I got this book after having read about and seen some of Dore's work in exhibitions. Having a keen interest in prints and engraving this famous work by Dore intrigued me. The pictures in this are wonderful and give such a vivid idea of Victorian London. I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in Dore or images of Victorian England.
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Low quality paper
Sadly these wonderful and historical illustrations are printed on matte paper, which significantly diminishes the quality of black. And Dore's London is all about black! Read more
Published 5 months ago by DanielFJ
rich history of London by one of the worlds best engravers
I bought this after buying some poetry books illustrated by Dore and learned about this artist and his famous London series. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Paul Chapman
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