Westminster from Waterloo Bridge
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About the work
- Location
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Country: Bulgaria
City: Sofia
Place: British Embassy
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About the artist
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.
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Explore
- Places
- England, River Thames, London, Westminster Hall, Lambeth: Lead Works Shot Tower, Westminster Bridge, Westminster Abbey, Southwark, Red Lion Brewery, Lambeth, Westminster
- Subjects
- topography, townscape/cityscape, smoke, river bank, river, bridge (urban), factory, abbey, chimney, tower, barge/canal boat, sailboat
- Materials & Techniques
- lithograph, coloured lithograph
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Details
- Title
- Westminster from Waterloo Bridge
- Date
- 1842
- Medium
- Coloured lithograph
- Acquisition
- Purchased from Vicars Bros, June 1954
- GAC number
- 2783