Doorway, Temple Church (Frontispiece)
Medium
Lithograph, hand-colored
Dimensions
Sheet: 17 1/4 × 12 7/8 in. (43.8 × 32.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1919
Accession Number
19.71.2(1)
Tags
Doors
About the Artist
Thomas Shotter Boys|Charles Joseph Hullmandel|Thomas 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...