Micklegate Bar

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Thomas Shotter Boys was born in Pentonville, North London. He was apprenticed to engraver George Cook, before moving to Paris during the 1820s. There he met Richard Parkes Bonington, with whom he worked. He returned to England in 1837 and initially engraved the designs of other artists and contributed to publications. In 1839, Boys produced his own publication, ‘Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent and Antwerp’, the first English book with lithographic plates entirely in colour. He was elected a member of the New Water Colour Society in 1841 and in the following year published ‘Original Views of London As It Is’. Boys spent the last 20 years of his life teaching drawing and working as a lithographer. He died aged 71 in St John's Wood.

Places

England, York: Micklegate Bar, York, Yorkshire

Subjects

wheelbarrow, shovel/spade, topography, Victorian Genre, dog, donkey, man, woman, girl, 19th century costume, top hat, bonnet, basket, gate, street

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

Thomas Shotter Boys (1803 - 1874)

Title

Micklegate Bar

Date

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Vicars Bros, October 1955

GAC number

3338