Entry to the Strand from Charing Cross

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Cabinet Office, 1 Horse Guards Road

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, Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Charing Cross, Strand

Subjects

wheel, carriage, horseback, cart, statue (as Subject), topography, genre, townscape/cityscape, dog, horse, lion, boy, man, woman, girl, 19th century costume, military uniform, top hat, cap, basket, sailor (navy), lamp post, street, bollard, pavement, shop, house, church, spire, window, chimney, awning

Materials & Techniques

coloured lithograph

Artist

Thomas Shotter Boys (1803 - 1874)

Title

Entry to the Strand from Charing Cross

Date

1842

Medium

Coloured lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from William Weston Gallery, March 1980

Inscription

inside image: [on base of statue of King Charles I] T.S. BOYS 1841

GAC number

14960