Piccadilly looking towards the City

Location

Country: Sweden
City: Stockholm
Place: British Embassy

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, London, Piccadilly

Subjects

carriage, cart, hot-air balloon, lantern, builder, topography, townscape/cityscape, Victorian Genre, horse, man, woman, 19th century costume, military uniform, tricorn hat, coat of arms, soldier, lamp post, shop-front, street, pavement, shop, house, window, chimney

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, coloured lithograph

Artist

Thomas Shotter Boys (1803 - 1874)

Title

Piccadilly looking towards the City

Date

1842

Medium

Coloured lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Vicars Bros., March 1957

GAC number

3761