Gustave Doré and Hélidore Pisan’s Newgate—Exercise Yard, 1872. Professor Sarah Schaefer article in March 2025 Art Forum

Gustave Doré and Hélidore Pisan’s Newgate—Exercise Yard, 1872

By Sarah C. Schaefer

Black and white illustration depicting a group of prisoners in tattered clothing, lined up and shackled, marching in a circular formation inside a stone-walled courtyard. They are overseen by guards in uniforms.Gustave Doré and Hélidore Pisan, Newgate—Exercise Yard, 1872, wood engraving, 9 3⁄8 × 7 1⁄2″. From Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré, London: A Pilgrimage
Black and white illustration depicting a group of prisoners in tattered clothing, lined up and shackled, marching in a circular formation inside a stone-walled courtyard. They are overseen by guards in uniforms. Gustave Doré and Hélidore Pisan, Newgate—Exercise Yard, 1872, wood engraving, 9 3⁄8 × 7 1⁄2″. From Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré, London: A Pilgrimage (Grant & Co., 1872).

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ARTFORUM
March 2025
VOL. 63, NO. 7

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