Peter Stent
Encyclopedia
Peter Stent was a seventeenth century London
printseller, who from the early 1640s until his death ran one of the biggest printmaking
businesses of the day.
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
printseller, who from the early 1640s until his death ran one of the biggest printmaking
Printmaking
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable...
businesses of the day.
External links
- Alexander Globe, ‘Stent, Peter (b. in or before 1613, d. 1665)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 12 January 2008