Title

'Poplar Dock', 1872. Creator: Gustave Doré.

Caption

'Poplar Dock', 1872. Poplar Dock on the Isle of Dogs, originally a series of reservoirs built by the West India Company, in 1828 was converted to a railway dock used mainly to import coal from the Northeast of England. From, "LONDON. A Pilgrimage" by Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold. [Grant and Co., 72-78, Turnmill Street, E.C., 1872].

Date

1872

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F27_149

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

47,5Mb (2,3Mb) / 11,5in x 16,0in / 3458 x 4801 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation exterior outdoors London England people male job man men railways boat boats arts country trade book guy ship ships occupation British English railway docks freight fuel location Victorian century Britain profession import literature concept coal United Kingdom B&W poplar city life pulley isle of dogs Working Class docker Day 19th century water transport black & white black and white working-class nineteenth century Tower Hamlets historic The Print Collector citylife dock worker social class TGN outside dockers engraving Blanchard Jerrold Jerrold Gustave DorÚ Gustave Dore Louis Christophe Gustave Dore Paul Gustave Dore Blanchard Dore Paul Gustave Dore Gustave West India Company William Blanchard Jerrold London A Pilgrimage Grant & Co Grant and Co DorÚ Paul Gustave Poplar Dock engraving