Artist
W Ridley
W Ridley is a Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
English artist W. Ridley left no letters or diaries, only prints. In 1794 he etched lively street scenes for the H. Beard print collection, cramming London shopfronts and passers-by into small, lively panels. He worked on copper plates, pressing ink onto paper by hand, no two impressions were exactly alike.
The prints capture 18th-century London’s noise, color, and chaos without a single word. See how Ridley crowded every inch of plate with detail, then tap the H. Beard Print Collection to zoom into one of these tiny, bustling worlds.
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