Édouard Dentu, éditeur

Édouard Dentu, éditeur (Paris) 
Album des Arts Utiles et Amusants
1832
hand-colored lithographic plate
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Édouard Dentu, éditeur (Paris)
Album des Arts Utiles et Amusants
1832
hand-colored lithographic plate
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Édouard Dentu, éditeur (Paris)
Album des Arts Utiles et Amusants
1832
hand-colored lithographic plate
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Édouard Dentu, éditeur (Paris)
Album des Arts Utiles et Amusants
1832
hand-colored lithographic plate
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Édouard Dentu, éditeur (Paris)
Album des Arts Utiles et Amusants
1832
hand-colored lithographic plate
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Édouard Dentu, éditeur (Paris)
Album des Arts Utiles et Amusants
1832
hand-colored lithographic plate
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Édouard Dentu, éditeur (Paris)
Album des Arts Utiles et Amusants
1832
hand-colored lithographic plate
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Édouard Dentu, éditeur (Paris)
Album des Arts Utiles et Amusants
1832
hand-colored lithographic plate
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Édouard Dentu, éditeur (Paris)
Album des Arts Utiles et Amusants
1832
hand-colored lithographic plate
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Édouard Dentu, éditeur (Paris)
Album des Arts Utiles et Amusants
1832
hand-colored lithographic plate
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Édouard Dentu, éditeur (Paris)
Album des Arts Utiles et Amusants
1832
hand-colored lithographic plate
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Édouard Dentu, éditeur (Paris)
Album des Arts Utiles et Amusants
1832
hand-colored lithographic plate
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Édouard Dentu, éditeur (Paris)
Album des Arts Utiles et Amusants
1832
hand-colored lithographic plate
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Édouard Dentu, éditeur (Paris)
Album des Arts Utiles et Amusants
1832
hand-colored lithographic plate
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Édouard Dentu, éditeur (Paris)
Album des Arts Utiles et Amusants
1832
hand-colored lithographic plate
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Édouard Dentu, éditeur (Paris)
Album des Arts Utiles et Amusants
1832
hand-colored lithographic plate
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Édouard Dentu, éditeur (Paris)
Album des Arts Utiles et Amusants
1832
hand-colored lithographic plate
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

from The Consolation of Philosophy

Happy is he, that with fix'd Eyes

The Fountain of all goodness spies!

Happy is he, that can break through

Those Bonds, which tie him here below!

    The Thracian poet long ago

Kind Orpheus, full of tears and wo

Did for his lov'd Euridice

In such sad Numbers mourn, that he

Made the Trees run in to his mone,

And Streams stand still to hear him grone.

The Does came fearless in one throng

And Lyons to his mournful Song,

And charm'd by the harmonious sound

The Hare stay'd by the quiet Hound.

    But when Love height'ned by despair

And deep reflections on his Fair
Had swell'd his heart, and made it rise

And run in Tears out at his Eyes:

And those sweet Aires, which did appease

Wild Beasts, could give their Lord no ease;

Then vex'd, that so much grief and Love

Mov'd not at all the gods above,

With desperate thoughts and bold intent,

Towards the Shades below he went;

For thither his fair Love was fled,

And he must have her from the dead.

– Boethius (AD 476-524), translated by Henry Vaughan (1678)