Wednesday 6 October 2021

Thomas Shotter Boys - part 2

 English watercolour painter and lithographer. From 1825 to 1837 he was based mainly in France, where he was a friend of Bonington, whose watercolours have sometimes been confused with those of Boys. He specialised in Continental urban scenes and in 1839 he published Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen, etc., a work that marked the transition from hand-tinted lithography to chromolithography. In 1842 he published Original Views of London as It Is, the plates of which constitute a fine topographical record of Regency London. In spite of the high quality of his work, Boys's career went into decline in the later 1840s (partly because of ill health) and he was often reduced to doing hackwork.

For a comprehensive biography of Thomas Shotter Boys, and for earlier works, see part 1 also.

This is part 2 of a 3-part series on the works of Thomas Shotter Boys:


1840 Le quai de Grève et le pont d'Arcole
oil on canvas laid down on canvas 24 x 33 cm

1839 Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen 

published by Charles Joseph Hullmandel - continued from part 1:

1839 Laon Cathedral
colour lithograph 38.5 x 27.6 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1839 Notre Dame, Chartres
colour lithograph 36.3 x 28.3 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1839 Notre Dame, Paris
lithograph 24.7 x 38.7 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1839 Pavillon de Flore, Tuileries
colour lithograph 34.4 x 29.2 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1839 Porte Rouge, Notre Dame, Paris
colour lithograph 27.3 x 16.9 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1839 Porte Rouge, Notre Dame, Paris
colour lithograph 27.4 x 17.1 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1839 Rue de la Crosse Horloge, Rouen
colour lithograph 36.9 x 27.5 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1839 Rue du Rivage, Abbeville
colour lithograph 27.8 x 38.9 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1839 Rue Notre Dame, Paris
colour lithograph 37 x 26.7 cm

1839 South Porch of Chartres Cathedral
colour lithograph 38.7 x 27.6 cm

1839 St. Etienne du Mont and the Pantheon, Paris
colour lithograph 41.1 x 29.2 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1839 The Institute, Paris
colour lithograph 41.1 x 29.2 cm

1839 Tour de Remy, Dieppe
colour lithograph 36.7 x 27 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 Original Views of London as it is, designed by Charles Ollier. Folio of 26 hand-coloured lithographs:

1839 Frontispiece: Doorway, Temple
hand-coloured lithograph 45.2 x 32.5 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL



1842 Blackfriars, from Southwark Bridge
hand-coloured lithograph 17.5 x 45 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL


1842 Blackfriars, from Southwark Bridge
hand-coloured lithograph 45 x 17.5 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 Board of Trade, Whitehall, from Downing Street
hand-coloured lithograph 32 x 42 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 Buckingham Palace from St.James Park
hand-coloured lithograph 24.5 x 44.5 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 Buckingham Palace from St.James Park detail
hand-coloured lithograph 44.4 x 24.5
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 Entry to the Strand from Charing Cross
hand-coloured lithograph
(details not found)

1842 Gardens at Buckingham Palace
hand-coloured lithograph
(details not found)

1842 Hyde Park Corner
hand-coloured lithograph 30.4 x 42.7 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 Hyde Park Corner detail

1842 Hyde Park Near Crosvenor Gate
hand-coloured lithograph 24.3 x 47 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 Hyde Park Near Crosvenor Gate detail

1842 Hyde Park Near Crosvenor Gate
hand-coloured lithograph 47 x 24.3 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 London Bridge, from Southwark Bridge
hand-coloured lithograph 17.7 x 45.3 cm cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 London, from Greenwich
hand-coloured lithograph 29 x 43 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 London, from Greenwich detail

1842 Mansion House, Cheapside
hand-coloured lithograph 31.5 x 42.7 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 Mansion House, Cheapside detail

1842 Piccadilly, Looking Towards the City
hand-coloured lithograph 31.7 x 42.9 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 Piccadilly, Looking Towards the City detail

1842 Regent Street Looking Towards the Quadrant
hand-coloured lithograph 30.2 x 42 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 Regent Street Looking Towards the Quadrant detail

1842 Regent Street, Duke of York's Column, London
hand-coloured lithograph 31.2 x 43 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 Regent Street, Duke of York's Column, London detail

1842 Somerset House
hand-coloured lithograph
details not found

1842 St. Dunstans Fleet Street
hand-coloured lithograph 42.7 x 31.2 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 St. James Palace
hand-coloured lithograph 40 x 31.2 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 St. Paul’s from Ludgate Hill 
hand--coloured lithograph 43.5 x 31 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL


"1842 Original Views of London as it is" continues in part 3.

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