Thomas Shotter Boys - part 3

  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 see part For earlier works, see parts 1 & 2 also.

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

1842 Original Views of London As It Is, designed by Charles Ollier folio of 26 hand-colored lithographs (continued):

1842 Temple Bar from The Strand
hand-coloured lithograph 42.5 x 31.5 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 The Bank Looking Towards the Mansion House
hand-coloured lithograph 43 x 31.5 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 The Club Houses and Pall Mall
hand-coloured lithograph 31.2 x 45 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 The Club Houses and Pall Mall detail

1842 The Custom House
hand-coloured lithograph 43 x 31.2 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 The Guildhall
hand-coloured lithograph 29.7 x39.7 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 The Horseguards from St. James’s Park
hand-coloured lithograph 24.5 x 45.4 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 The Horseguards from St. James’s Park detail

1842 The Strand
hand-coloured lithograph 42.7 x 31.5 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 The Tower and Mint from Great Tower Hill
hand-coloured lithograph 19.5 x 43 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 The Tower and Mint from Great Tower Hill detail

1842 Westminster Abbey, Hospital and Company
hand-coloured lithograph 31.7 x 44 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1842 Westminster Abbey, Hospital and Company detail

1842 Westminster Abbey, Hospital and Company detail 2

1842 Westminster, from Waterloo Bridge
hand-coloured lithograph 17.5 x 45.5 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

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1851 A view of Crystal Palace, Hyde Park
pencil and watercolour 17.8 x 25.1 cm

1851 Ca'Bernardo Mocenigo: Capital of window Shafts
lithograph
Harvard Art Museums

1851 Low Tide
pen and blue ink, watercolour and scratching out 8.3 x 12.1 cm

1860 Glacier of the Bondhuus
watercolour 35 x 50 cm

1867 L' hotel de Ville, St Omer
pencil, pen and sepia ink and watercolour heightened with white and gum arabic 33 x 23.5 cm

1874 The Seine and Palace of the Tuileries
watercolour and gouache on paper 20 x 29.5 cm
Tate, London

A fishing vessel heading out to sea, a church beyond
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour with scratching out 8.3 x 14.9 cm

A street in Rouen, the Church of St. Ouen beyond
pencil and watercolour 37.5 x 28.5 cm

A Traveller in an extensive wooded landscape
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic on paper 22.6 x 32 cm

A view down the Thames, with Somerset House and St Paul's beyond
pencil and watercolour 62.3 x 101.6 cm

A view down the Thames, with Somerset House and St Paul's beyond
detail

A view from the bank of a river
etching 23 x 31 cm
The British Museum, London

A View of Rubens' Castle at Elewijt
watercolour over pencil, heightened with scratching out
17.6 x 25.2 cm

Alpine Palace
watercolour 32.5 x 43 cm

An extensive landscape: Cattle wading in a broad river, and a river winding through a hilly landscape
pencil and watercolour 25.4 x 35.3 cm

Carlton Terrace, St James's Park, looking west towards The Mall
pencil and watercolour 27 x 40.7 cm

Environs of Windsor Castle
watercolour with touches of scraping, heightened with white gouache, over traces of graphite, on tan wove paper
27.3 x 44.4 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

L'Institut de France on the Seine, Nôtre Dame beyond Paris
pencil and watercolour 15.3 x 24.8 cm

Landscape with Windmills
watercolour with pen in brown ink, over pencil with scratching out on wove paper 20.6 x 27 cm
Yale Centre For British Art, New Haven, CT

Nant ffrancon, Caernarvon, North Wales
watercolour, pen and brown ink on paper-board 12.2 x 21.9 cm
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

St. Paul's from Ludgate Hill
lithograph 44 x 31.3 cm

Street view next to Palais de Justice in Paris
etching and aquatint 29.3 x 18.6 cm
The British Museum, London

Study of Horse Guards and Westminster, London, Autumn
watercolour over pencil 27.3 x 37.7 cm

Sussex Place, Regent’s Park, seen from across the lake
pencil and watercolour 23.2 x 36.8 cm

The Joyous Band
oil on canvas 95 x 141 cm

Two children by a lake with buildings and ruins beyond
watercolour over pencil on paper 24.5 x 33.4 cm
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

View of Lac d'Allos with Mont Pelat in the background
watercolour, gum arabic, tempera and traces of chalk on paper 27.7 x 49.8 cm
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

Vue d'Andernach (bords du Rhin)
watercolour on paper 8.2 x 4.5 cm
Morgan Library & Museum, New York

Wooded landscape, with farm buildings beyond
 watercolour over traces of pencil, heightened with bodycolour, gum arabic and scratching out, on wove paper 19.5 x 25.2 cm