3-100-700 - "Royal Academy of Arts, London"/Heritage Images

The Docks - Night Scene, 1872. A 'pitched battle...outside a public-house at Dockhead one threatening night' - crowd of dock workers on the banks of the River Thames. From "London: a pilgrimage", with illustrations by Gustave Doré and text by Blanchard Jerrold, [London: Grant & Co., 1872] (pl. facing p.30). 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".