Figures walking on a path through a cornfield, a church beyond

Details

Thomas Shotter Boys, N.W.S. (1803-1874)
Figures walking on a path through a cornfield, a church beyond
signed with initials and dated 'T.B. 1834' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour with scratching out
2½ x 5¾ in. (6.4 x 14.6 cm.)

Provenance

L.H. Gilbert; Christie's, London, 6 March 1973, lot 40 (to Albany Gallery).
with Albany Gallery, London, 1974.
with Agnew's, London.

Literature

J. Roundell, Thomas Shotter Boys, London, 1974, p. 98, pl. 30 illustrated in colour.
G. Bauer, Le Siècle d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise, Anthèse, 1998, p. 122, pl. 163, illustrated in colour.
W. Hauptman, L'Âge d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise 1770-1900, Lausanne, 1999, p. 156, pl. 98, illustrated in colour.

Exhibited

London, Agnew's, 118th Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, 1991, no. 27, illustrated.
Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, L'Âge d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise 1770-1900, 22 January - 24 May 1999, no. 98.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Bonington's The Wheatfield, Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham (P. Noon, On the Pleasure of Painting, Yale, 1991, p. 195, no. 81, illustrated in colour) of 1826 can be compared to this and the previous watercolour in both composition and technique. Boys and Bonington have used a very dry brush together with finger and light scratching out to produce the effect of a dry cornfield.

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