35 Gustave Doré, ‘Lambeth Gas Works’,...

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TitleLambeth Gas Works

Creator nameDoré, Gustave

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1872

Object typeDrawing

LocationFrom Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold, London: A Pilgrimage (London: Grant and Co., 1872), opp. p. 40

SubjectsDrawing, French--19th centuryGas manufacture and worksCity and town lifePublic works--England--London

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Part 2: Gas and Light

Lynda Nead

Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London

By the early years of Victoria’s reign, gas lighting had converted London nights into day, and to many writers in this period it seemed that London was the most illuminated capital city in Europe...

Author

Lynda Nead

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.83-146

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00345.3

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23359&redirecttoanchor=92786

Chapter subject tags:London (England)--History--19th centuryPublic works--England--LondonEnglish literature--19th centuryUrbanization--Great Britain

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