Artist

Richard Dighton

H Beard Print Collection
H Beard Print Collection
H Beard Print Collection
H Beard Print Collection

Richard Dighton is a Romanticism artist. 5 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Richard Dighton spent his life sketching London street life on the spot, cigarette behind his ear and sketchbook in hand. He carved caricatures of shopkeepers, drunks, and pickpockets straight from the pavement, then sold the prints in his Holborn print-shop. His “H Beard” series is a time-capsule of 1810s London faces—look up “H Beard Print Collection August 1819” to step into the noise and soot of the Strand.

Works by Richard Dighton

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

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