Artist

Dent

Dent is a Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

This printmaker carved everyday scenes in the 18th-century style, turning taverns, shops, and street corners into finely etched memories. One of their surviving sheets, H Beard Print Collection (16th August 1800), shows Londoners in tricorn hats and bonnets going about their business—lively but orderly. You’ll find the same careful linework and social detail across their small body of work, all from a moment when prints were the Instagram of the day. Tap H Beard Print Collection to zoom in and trace the faces in the crowd.

Works by Dent

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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