Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen Etc.
1839
Artist, British, 1803 - 1874
Artwork overview
-
Medium
bound volume with 29 chromolithographs on 26 sheets of thick card
-
Credit Line
-
Dimensions
book: 37.8 x 54.8 x 2.5 cm (14 7/8 x 21 9/16 x 1 in.)
-
Accession
2011.82.1.a-cc
-
Catalogue Raisonné
Groschwitz 1962, no. 24, a-cc
Associated Artworks
See all 29 artworksHôtel Cluny, Paris
Thomas Shotter Boys
1839
Rue de Rivage, Abbeville
Thomas Shotter Boys
1839
Byloke, Ghent
Thomas Shotter Boys
1839
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Sims Reed Rare Books, London); purchased 2011 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1962
Groschwitz, Gustave von. "The Prints of Thomas Shotter Boys." Prints: Thirteen Illustrated Essays on the Art of the Print, Selected for the Print Council of America. Edited by Carl Zigrosser. New York, 1962: 191-215.
Inscriptions
cover in gilt: T.S. Boys's / PICTURÈSQUE ARC_TURE/in/Paris/Ghent Antwerp Rouen Etc; on inside first free end-paper in graphite: 232.13/8h / #22038 ph ? wxxx; on title page in print: Picturesque Architecture/in/Paris/Ghent/Antwerp/Rouen/Etc; drawn from nature & on stone by Thomas Shotter Boys, London; published 1839 by Thomas Boys, Printseller to the Royal Family, 11 Golden Square, Regent St., printed entirely in colours by C. Hullmandel, London.