Ile de la Cité from the Institut, Paris
Thomas Shotter Boys
c. 1832
Medium
graphite with stumping on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 24.2 x 32.7 cm (9 1/2 x 12 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Lowell Libson in honor of Donald Stone
Accession Number
2007.72.1
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...