London slums in 1870 Gustave Doré


A Victorian street in night-time London, UK; barefoot children fill the street. they are dressed in rags, but rows of leather boots surround every entrance, perhaps of the adults. The drawing is by the celebrated artist of the time, Gustave Doré, who had moved to work in London.


Size: 8744px × 7133px
Location: Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © FromOldBooks.org / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1872, alley, alleyway, bare, barefoot, blanchard, boots, carriage, children, class, coach, coachman, cobbled, criminal, dials, dickens, dickensian, doree, doré, drawing, dressed, dudley, engraving, feet, gaslight, goat, grubby, gustav, gustave, homeless, homelessness, houses, jerrold, london, misery, poor, poverty, ragged, rags, road, row, shawl, slum, slums, smiling, stage, street, tattered, tatters, tenements, thieves, underclass, underworld, unemployment, urchins, victorian, vintage, woman, working