Thomas Shotter Boys, N.W.S. (1803-1874)

View in the Rue de la Tuile, Rouen, with the tower of St. Ouen in the distance, France

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Thomas Shotter Boys, N.W.S. (1803-1874)
View in the Rue de la Tuile, Rouen, with the tower of St. Ouen in the distance, France
signed and dated 'Thos Boys. Rouen. 1840.' (lower left)
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour, watermark 'J WHATMAN 1837'
15 x 10¾ in. (38.1 x 27.3 cm.)

Provenance

with Davis & Langdale, New York.
with Spink, London, circa 1984.

Exhibited

London, New Watercolour Society, 1840, no. 129.

Lot Essay

Because of the popularity of this view of Rouen, Boys revisited it on a number of occasions. One of the earliest watercolours of the view dated 1832, was exhibited with Agnew's in 1997. In 1833 he published five soft ground etchings of Rouen; the view of St. Ouen is reproduced in J. Roundell, Thomas Shotter Boys, London, 1974, p. 111, pl. 39.

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