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Warehousing in the City
Gustave Doré, born 1832 - died 1883 - Enlarge image
Warehousing in the City
- Object:
Drawing
- Place of origin:
London, England (made)
- Date:
1869-72 (painted)
- Artist/Maker:
Gustave Doré, born 1832 - died 1883 (artist)
- Materials and Techniques:
Pen and ink wash with chinese white
- Credit Line:
Given by E. Peter Jones
- Museum number:
E.1177-1925
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case MB2A, shelf DR111, box LOANS
This is the original drawing for an illustration facing page fourteen of Doré's famous volume London: A Pilgrimage, first published by Grant & Co. in 1872, with text by Blanchard Jerrold. Doré, based in Paris, had a five-year contract with the publishers, to visit London for three months a year and make 250 illustrations for an amazing annual salary of £10,000. London dealt with all aspects of the city: its inhabitants, their pleasures and vices, its buildings and events, its high society, workers and derelicts. Doré's images are not so much strictly documentary - although they tell us a great deal about nineteenth-century London - as highly imaginative.
