Thomas Shotter Boys (attributed or after) "Laon" (south transept of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Laon). Circa 1839. Thomas Shotter Boys1803 London - 1874 ibid. Watercolour and pen-and-ink drawing on strong paper. Unsigned. Inscribed in ink "Laon" u.r. Loose in an old, hinged passe-partout, this stamped on the back by a Frankfurt gallery and typographically artist-inscribed on a label. Drawing probably after lithograph no. 7 from the series "Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen etc., Drawn from Nature on Stone" published in London by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, 1939 (38,8 x 27,7 cm). Paper browned due to age, light margins and unimpressive creasing. Small brown spots in the sky. Tear (ca. 0,5 cm) at margin u.mi. as well as a small tear in upper paper layer at upper left margin, each with minor loss of colour. Isolated white, tiny spots of paint, probably from the working process. Verso yellowed and with spots of foxing. Verso along the margins remains of an adhesive mounting, partly with small material adhesions. Dimensions: 39 x 27,9 cm, Psp. 50 x 39.2 cm. Thomas Shotter Boys 1803 London - 1874 ibid. English watercolourist, engraver and lithographer. 1817-23 apprenticeship with the engraver George Cooke in London. Afterwards in Paris acquaintance with Richard Parkes Bonington, who introduced him to a circle of influential patrons, artists and literati like Eugène Delacroix, Jules-Robert Auguste, Baron Charles Rivet and Prosper Merimée. Under the influence of Bonington, he turned to watercolours. In 1830 he moved to Brussels, in the same year he returned to England. In 1842-43 he travelled to Germany and Prague. One of his main works is the collection of colour lithographs "Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen".