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
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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
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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 |
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| 1851 Ca'Bernardo Mocenigo: Capital of window Shafts lithograph Harvard Art Museums |
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| 1851 Low Tide pen and blue ink, watercolour and scratching out 8.3 x 12.1 cm |
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| 1860 Glacier of the Bondhuus watercolour 35 x 50 cm |
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| 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 |
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| 1874 The Seine and Palace of the Tuileries watercolour and gouache on paper 20 x 29.5 cm Tate, London |
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| 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 |
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| A street in Rouen, the Church of St. Ouen beyond pencil and watercolour 37.5 x 28.5 cm |
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| A Traveller in an extensive wooded landscape pencil and watercolour with gum arabic on paper 22.6 x 32 cm |
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| A view down the Thames, with Somerset House and St Paul's beyond pencil and watercolour 62.3 x 101.6 cm |
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| A view down the Thames, with Somerset House and St Paul's beyond detail |
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| A view from the bank of a river etching 23 x 31 cm The British Museum, London |
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| A View of Rubens' Castle at Elewijt watercolour over pencil, heightened with scratching out 17.6 x 25.2 cm |
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| Alpine Palace watercolour 32.5 x 43 cm |
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| 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 |
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| Carlton Terrace, St James's Park, looking west towards The Mall pencil and watercolour 27 x 40.7 cm |
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| 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 |
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| L'Institut de France on the Seine, Nôtre Dame beyond Paris pencil and watercolour 15.3 x 24.8 cm |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| St. Paul's from Ludgate Hill lithograph 44 x 31.3 cm |
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| Street view next to Palais de Justice in Paris etching and aquatint 29.3 x 18.6 cm The British Museum, London |
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| Study of Horse Guards and Westminster, London, Autumn watercolour over pencil 27.3 x 37.7 cm |
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| Sussex Place, Regent’s Park, seen from across the lake pencil and watercolour 23.2 x 36.8 cm |
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| The Joyous Band oil on canvas 95 x 141 cm |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Vue d'Andernach (bords du Rhin) watercolour on paper 8.2 x 4.5 cm Morgan Library & Museum, New York |
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| 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 |
