View of the High, Oxford with the Church of St. Mary's
View of the High, Oxford with the Church of St. Mary's
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View of the High, Oxford with the Church of St. Mary'sSigned lower right: Thos Boys. 1833Watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour 19.7 by 22.7cm., 7 ¾ by 9 in.This is a view looking east down High St taken from near the junction of Cornmarket St and St Aldate's. Boys was living in Paris in the early 1830s, making occasional short trips back to England. A view of Jesus College, Oxford, dated 1832, was sold at Sotheby's on 26th November 1998, lot 61 for £8,200Provenance: Anonymous sale, Phillip's, 14th May 1996, lot 30;With Spink's, London;Private Collection until 2008){kind=link}
Thomas Shotter Boys (1803-1874)
View of the High, Oxford with the Church of St. Mary's
Signed lower right: Thos Boys. 1833
Watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour
19.7 by 22.7cm., 7 ¾ by 9 in.
This is a view looking east down High St taken from near the junction of Cornmarket St and St Aldate's. Boys was living in Paris in the early 1830s, making occasional short trips back to England. A view of Jesus College, Oxford, dated 1832, was sold at Sotheby's on 26th November 1998, lot 61 for £8,200
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Phillip's, 14th May 1996, lot 30;
With Spink's, London;
Private Collection until 2008