Comments on: Gustave Doré’s East End https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/09/gustave-dores-east-end/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 28 Dec 2014 16:08:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jonathan Kemp https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/09/gustave-dores-east-end/#comment-715547 Sun, 28 Dec 2014 16:08:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=125578#comment-715547 hello, great post
the first image shows Pindars House Bishopgate, recently conserved (2009) where a lot of later restorations were removed, as part of the new Medieval & Renaissance galleries at the V&A

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/s/sir-paul-pindars-house/

]]> By: Caroline https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/09/gustave-dores-east-end/#comment-682359 Wed, 10 Dec 2014 05:00:55 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=125578#comment-682359 Brilliant! Thanks again for showing me something new. GGG grandparents were rope makers living in Blue Gate Fields. Such a pretty name, as no doubt the area was when it was rural, but oh, my word, the squalor in this image.
More please!

]]> By: marianne isaacs https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/09/gustave-dores-east-end/#comment-681822 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:31:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=125578#comment-681822 I have been familiar with these for some time . I was boggled to see ,when looking at the one of Houndsditch that up at the top of the negraving is a sign “Harrow Alley” . A great grandfather was born there in 1872 so I guess this would have been his back yard . No wonder he took off for Australia as soon as he could ,all by himself at the age of 18. The funny thing is that his great great grandsons are living not far away as they have their 2 years working experience in London and are loving it !!

]]> By: Roger C https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/09/gustave-dores-east-end/#comment-681302 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 15:50:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=125578#comment-681302 Fantastic engravings, almost as good and evocative as 19thc photos.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/09/gustave-dores-east-end/#comment-681065 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:16:00 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=125578#comment-681065 How spectacular these impressions are from nearly 150 years ago… Never saw them before!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: James Harris https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/09/gustave-dores-east-end/#comment-681048 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 10:59:51 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=125578#comment-681048 Please don’t ever stop. Even in this ridiculously busy modern life we make for our selves everyone should take a little time out, put the kettle on and enjoy your daily blog. These particular pictures tell countless stories.

]]> By: Rosemary Hoffman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/09/gustave-dores-east-end/#comment-680987 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 10:19:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=125578#comment-680987 very evocative- makes you think -even i cant recall some of the streets names in the pictures

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/09/gustave-dores-east-end/#comment-680779 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 07:50:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=125578#comment-680779 Fantastic engravings from Doré, thanks for sharing, love his work. Valerie

]]> By: Caroline Bottomley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/09/gustave-dores-east-end/#comment-680769 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 07:44:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=125578#comment-680769 They are just astonishing and so evocative. And so insightful.
I’ll never look at a warehouse building again without populating with men and barrels and ropes and packages.
Hay boats on the Thames!
And the awful, awful poverty.
And that city thoroughfare! With dogs and people sitting on top of the carts and carriages.

Amazing.

And how interesting that the publisher engaged Dore in that way. Presumably very innovative. Publishers could just as easily commission in the same way now.
Or more likely, artists do it off their own bat.
How interesting.
As ever, thanks 🙂

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