He began his career earlyat the age of fifteenworking for the French paperLe journal pour rire.
In 1869, Doreteamed upwith journalist Blanchard Jerrold to produce a comprehensive portrait of London.
The duo were often accompanied by plain-clothes policemen.
In 1872, the completed book,London: A Pilgrimage, with 180 engravings, was published.
The title page of London: A Pilgrimage.
A very large part of our visual impression of 19th century London is based on these priceless illustrations.
Gustave Dore never married.
He lived with his mother, and for nearly his entire life, slept in a room adjoining room.
Leading image: Over London by Rail.
This is probably the most famous and most often seen plate from London.
Dudley Street, Seven Dials.
Inside the DocksWe have travelled through the commerce of a world in little.
The London Docks alone receive something like two thousand ships a year.
Steam trains at Gower Street station on the Metropolitan underground line, which had opened in 1863.
Warehousing in the City.The warehouse-men pause aloft on their landing-stages, book in hand, to contemplate us …
