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London, a Pilgrimage

Door Blanchard Jerrold

Categorie
Engels
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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