Live Auction 20450Old Master and British Works on Paper: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints 1500-1900
THOMAS SHOTTER BOYS, N.W.S. (LONDON 1803-1874)
Lot 128

THOMAS SHOTTER BOYS, N.W.S. (LONDON 1803-1874)

Figures on a bridge over a canal, Braunschweig, Germany

Closed5 July 2022

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GBP 2,000–3,000

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THOMAS SHOTTER BOYS, N.W.S. (LONDON 1803-1874)
Figures on a bridge over a canal, Braunschweig, Germany
signed and dated 'TS Boys. 1865' (lower left on two bricks)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic heightened with touches of bodycolour, and with scratching out
17 3⁄8 x 12 5⁄8 in. (44.2 x 32.1 cm.)

with John Spink, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 July 2011, lot 176, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

Exhibited in 1865, the present watercolour is probably derived from a drawing executed on one of Boys' sketching tours of the Continent in the 1830s whilst visiting his brother and sister in Darmstadt, Germany.