St Etienne du Mont and the Pantheon, Paris, plate 20 from Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen, Etc.
Medium
Color lithograph on white wove paper
Dimensions
Stone: 35.1 × 28.8 cm (13 7/8 × 11 3/8 in.); Sheet: 53.3 × 36.1 cm (21 × 14 1/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129382
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...