N. Front to St. James's Palace, From Cleveland Row
by SHOTTER BOYS, Thomas (1803-1874)
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About This Item
[London: T. Boys, 1842. Hand-coloured lithograph by Thomas Shotter Boys, printed by Charles Hullmandel, deluxe edition, mounted on card (as issued). Very good condition. A very fine image from Boys' 'London As It Is': a work 'of considerable importance' (Abbey).
Abbey writes of the work London As It Is from which this beautiful image comes: apart "from the beauty of its plates, it records London at a period when good pictorial records were few. The London of the 1840's is probably more difficult to reconstruct than at any other period in the nineteenth century" (Abbey Life 239). High production costs and changing fashion caused aquatint to die out, photography was still in an experimental stage, and chromolithography did not appear until 1850. Boys' work was issued with the plates tinted and hand-coloured, including Boys' name at the foot, or as here, with the plates hand-coloured mounted in imitation of watercolours, with no imprint. Boys garnered enormous prestige from this work and from his earlier, Picturesque Views in Paris, Ghent... (1839). The "accuracy of his portraits of buildings and his skill in composition have seldom been bettered" (Mallalieu Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists p.38).
Cf. Abbey Scenery 239.
Abbey writes of the work London As It Is from which this beautiful image comes: apart "from the beauty of its plates, it records London at a period when good pictorial records were few. The London of the 1840's is probably more difficult to reconstruct than at any other period in the nineteenth century" (Abbey Life 239). High production costs and changing fashion caused aquatint to die out, photography was still in an experimental stage, and chromolithography did not appear until 1850. Boys' work was issued with the plates tinted and hand-coloured, including Boys' name at the foot, or as here, with the plates hand-coloured mounted in imitation of watercolours, with no imprint. Boys garnered enormous prestige from this work and from his earlier, Picturesque Views in Paris, Ghent... (1839). The "accuracy of his portraits of buildings and his skill in composition have seldom been bettered" (Mallalieu Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists p.38).
Cf. Abbey Scenery 239.
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- Seller
- Donald Heald Rare Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 10067
- Title
- N. Front to St. James's Palace, From Cleveland Row
- Author
- SHOTTER BOYS, Thomas (1803-1874)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- T. Boys
- Place of Publication
- [London
- Date Published
- 1842
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- Topographical Views;
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