3-101-114 - "Royal Academy of Arts, London"/Heritage Images

A City Thoroughfare, 1872. Busy scene with horse buses, hansom cabs, carts loaded with goods, firemen in an open wagon, and a police officer directing traffic. From "London: a pilgrimage", with illustrations by Gustave Doré and text by Blanchard Jerrold, [London: Grant & Co., 1872] (p.22). The artist and author spent days touring the city together, often accompanied by plain clothes policemen. Jerrold led his friend Doré through the "shadows and sunlight of the great world of London".