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A Picture of Dorian Gray Walking Tour
London

Walk the gilded Mayfair streets where Oscar Wilde set his most seductive and unsettling novel, and where beauty always came at a price.

5 stops · 1.4 km

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Grosvenor Gallery

Basil is told to submit his portrait of Dorian to this real gallery instead of the stuffy Royal Academy, a rebellious alternative that once showed work by Whistler and Burne-Jones before closing after its founders fell out.

Aunt Agatha's home

Aunt Agatha's fictional home shares this square, its plane trees among the oldest in London, with the real former residence of Winston Churchill.

Dorian's House

Dorian's fictional address sits on a square that housed the American Embassy for eighty years and, more recently, has played the on-screen heart of the ton in Bridgerton.

Lord Henry's House

Oscar Wilde was known to visit friends on this very street, perhaps why he set Lord Henry's home here, on a street whose real residents once included Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

Alan Campbell's House

Alan Campbell's address is entirely fictional, but the real Hertford Street was once home to smallpox vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner and today houses London's most secretive private members' club.

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