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Thomas Shotter Boys
1803-1874
Hotel de Sens, Paris / S. Boys.
[London : Thomas Shotter Boys, 1839]
tinted color lithograph
image: 375 x 272 mm; sheet: 502 x 336 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.770
Notes
Plate 14 from a set of 26 tinted and color lithographed plates published by Boys in 1839 under the title "Picturesque architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen, etc.: drawn from nature & on stone"; printed in London by Charles Hullmandel.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the Hôtel de Sens viewed from the opposite street corner, with small turrets and a gothic carved portico, a tricolour hanging from the front and a cannon-shot in the front gable, from the July Revolution. With the inscription "29 Juillet 1830" over the balcony of the corner turret.
Associated names
Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803-1874. Picturesque architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen, etc.
Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789-1850, printer.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789-1850, printer.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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Century prints
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