A River and Cottage with White Paling, 1833

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Medium

watercolor over graphite with gouache and scratching out on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 19.1 x 25.2 cm (7 1/2 x 9 15/16 in.)
mount: 32.2 x 43.8 cm (12 11/16 x 17 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Accession Number

2012.35.1

Artists / Makers

Thomas Shotter Boys (artist) British, 1803 - 1874

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in brown ink: Thos. Boys 1833; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Boys

Provenance

Henri-Eugène-Philippe-Louis d'Orleans, duc d'Aumale, Orleans House, Twickenham(?); Hon. Emily Jane Mercer Elphinstone de Flahault (1819 - 1895); by descent; (sale, Christie's New York, 26 January 2012, no. 151); (via C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2012 by NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Millon & Cornette de Sant Cyr
d'Orleans, Henri-Eugène-Philippe-Louis Duc d'Aumale
de Flahault, Emily Jane Mercer Elphinstone Hon.

Exhibition History

2014: The Color of Nature: Recent Acquisitions of Landscape Watercolors, NGA, 2014.