A Ball at the Mansion House Picken Queen Victoria at the Guildhall

Queen Victoria at the Guildhall banquet

Fleet Street

scene at the foot of some riverside steps showing a waterman apparently thigh-deep in water

London and part of St Bartholomew's Hospital

A Ball at the Mansion House Picken Queen Victoria at the Guildhall'A Ball at the Mansion House', 1872. Interior view of Mansion House in London during a ball. Taken from London: A Pilgrimage by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dor. 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 Dor had concentrated on the poverty that existed in London.