THOMAS SHOTTER BOYS (1803 -1874)
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St.Laurent, Rouen1832 watercolour and bodycolour on paper, 31.7 X 25.1 cm inscribed: T. Boys 1832 on reverse: St Laurent, Rouen
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With some alterations this was lithographed as plate IX in Boys’ Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp and Rouen, 1839, with twenty-six superb colour-plates. A writer in the Quarterly Review expressed surprise that ‘26 prints, equal in effect to watercolour paintings, could be bought for so small a sum as eight guineas’. EJ PROVENANCE: Alex A. Haworth, Blackburn; Richard Haworth; Sotheby’s 10 March 1965, lot.68, purchased by Gallery. REFERENCES: Lithographed with alterations in Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Antwerp and Rouen, 1839, pl. 9. copyright © Trustees of Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford. Extract taken from Watercolours and Drawings, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery by Evelyn Joll. |
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