1-150-271 - Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

'Over London-By Rail', 1872. Showing men and women in the back yards of tenements in the East End of London, with a steam locomotive passing over a bridge in the background. Taken from London: A Pilgrimage by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré. A Pilgrimage was a comprehensive portrait of London, but although the book was a commercial success many of the critics disliked it. Several were upset that Jerrold and Doré had concentrated on the poverty that existed in London.