B3: Images

In this photo (the right picture), the man has a traveling selling table perched in the side walk of an unidentified corner of the city. The box is very clean and the advertisement is clearly labeled and explained for the buyer. The lady behind the […]

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/london-illustrations-by-gustave-dor Gustav Doré’s works are very captivating and full of details that allow him to convey a powerful and effective piece. In this illustration, Doré depicts London, England and Harrow Alley from the 19th century. Since then, the name has changed but Doré depicts what […]

Blog Post #1-Close Reading of Gustave Dore’s Illustration Though I closely examined all of Dore’s work in his collection of illustrations titled London: A Pilgrimage, for my close reading I settled on image #9 in the collection. This image portrays the housing developments of the […]

Flipping through John Thomson’s Street life in London, the photo that popped out to me the most was “Public Disinfectors”. Each of the photos in the album Thomson created has a light Sepia film due to the time period and how the photo film came […]

Blog Post 3: Close Reading Images The two images that I had decided to delve into for my close readings are Covent Garden Flower Women by John Thomson, which is part of his Street Life in London series published from 1876-7, and The Stalls, Covent […]

This illustration by Gustave Doré depicts a group of people, mainly children, huddled together on the side of a street in the night time. The mood of this illustration is overwhelmingly dreary. Overall it is a very dark image—the brightest point being the street lamp […]

I found the first image of Gustave Dore’s series to be a very revealing cover page as it relates to the themes that appear through out the series of illustrations. “London” is written in a creepy font which in combination with the gloomy, cloudy sky […]

Gustave Doré sketched with beautiful technique, very dramatic depictions of Victorian life in London in his image Houndsditch. His extreme detail, shading, and his unique use of line direction, shade, thickness, and spacing add a lot of depth and realism to the works. This realism […]

The work of John Thomson and Adolphe Smith really struck me, and the photographs had a particularly lasting effect on me. Thomson’s photograph “The Crawlers” was the first image that stuck out to me when I was viewing the group as a whole. Upon closer […]

After looking at all of the images from each of the collections, Dore’s and Thomson’s, I was really struck by how different they seem to be. While each are portraying London from the working classes, they seem to have very different images of what the […]