A River and Cottage with White Paling
Medium
watercolor over graphite with gouache and scratching out on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 19.1 x 25.2 cm (7 1/2 x 9 15/16 in.) mount: 32.2 x 43.8 cm (12 11/16 x 17 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
William B. O'Neal Fund
Accession Number
2012.35.1
About the Artist
Thomas Shotter Boys · 1803–1874
Thomas Shotter Boys was born on 2 January 1803 in Pentonville, London, and received his first professional training as an apprentice to the engraver George Cooke. When his apprenticeship concluded he crossed the Channel to Paris, a move that would transform his artistic direction entirely. There he encountered Richard Parkes Bonington, the brilliant English watercolourist whose fresh, luminous ren...