Meadows with a Distant View of Oxford

Meadows with a Distant View of Oxford by Thomas Shotter Boys

Medium

graphite and watercolor touched with white gouache on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 29 x 41.5 cm (11 7/16 x 16 5/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Mimi and Sanford Feld

Accession Number

2005.143.1

About the Artist

Thomas Shotter Boys · 18031874

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...

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