Boys spent approximately seven years in France from 1833-1837. He was among the group of eminent artists who worked on Baron Taylor's Voyages Pittoresques, 1835, his first effort at Lithography. The thirteenth volume of Voyages Pittoresque included four lithographs of Abbeville. Boys exhibited his first view of Abbeville at the New Water Colour Society in 1843 and was to revisit this subject many times over the ensuing years. Two lithographs of Abbeville from the Voyages Pittoresque are reproduced in J. Roundell, Thomas Shotter Boys, London, 1974, pl. 40-41