Meadows with a Distant View of Oxford
Thomas Shotter Boys
1830s
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 · 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...