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London, a Pilgrimage
Door Blanchard Jerrold
Categorie | Engels |
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Boeknummer | #442089-KN55 |
Titel | London, a Pilgrimage |
Auteur | Jerrold, Blanchard |
Boektype | Paperback |
Uitgeverij | New York, NY : Dover Publications |
Jaar van uitgave | 1970 |
ISBN10 | 048622306x |
ISBN13 | 9780486223063 |
Taal | Engels |
Beschrijving | Paperback, 8vo. |
Samenvatting | London in the middle of the 1800s was a subject endlessly sketched by artists, studied by social reformers, and discussed by writers. This comprehensive collection of drawings by Gustave Dor,? France's most celebrated graphic artist of the period, presents a panoramic portrait of that engrossing city - from fashionable ladies riding in a sunlit park to ragged wretches in a shadowy side street. Here are amazingly perceptive sketches of workaday London, busy market places, the Christy Minstrels, a waterman's family, thieves gambling, the Devils' Acre in Westminster, flower girls, waifs and strays, a wedding at the Abbey, provincials in search of lodgings, a garden party, prisoners in the Newgate exercise yard, stalls at Covent Garden Opera House, and many other scenes that cap... (Lees verder)ture the London of a bygone era. |
Pagina's | 191 |
Conditie | Redelijk — Plastified layer cover loose in corners front cover. Fair-good copy. |
Prijs | € 10,00 |
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