Over London by rail 1872 Bombings New volume in ACC Art

New volume in ACC Art Books' The London series

works of art and anecdotes

This painting captures the atmosphere of late 19th-century London

Duffel coat features his initials

Feeding the pigeons in Trafalgar Square

Over London by rail 1872 Bombings New volume in ACC ArtOver London by rail. Engraving. View of the London slums by Gustave Dore from 'Londre a Pilgrimage', first published in 1872. This illustration is a bird's eye view of the slums of London, it shows the poor and overcrowed conditions in which the poor lived in Victorian times, where There is a desperate, ferocious levity in the air they (the poor) are the workless of a work a day London born in idleness to die in the workhouse, or upon bare boards.