View of Issy (A Street in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Seine)
Thomas Shotter Boys
1820–74
Medium
Brush and watercolor over graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 12 15/16 x 8 3/4 in. (32.8 x 22.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966
Accession Number
67.55.9
Tags
BuildingsStreetsChurchesHuman Figures
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...