MOTCO Image Database

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INDEX

1. Introduction and About the Series click

2. About Thomas Shotter Boys click

3. Plates and Images click

4. Bernard Adams's Commentary click

5. CD click

6. Source of Images and Copyright click

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PLATES AND IMAGES

Complete Series with Images click. (This will take several minutes.)

Individual Plates and Images:

1. Temple Church (Doorway) click
2. Mansion House, Cheapside &c. click
3. The Tower and Mint, from Great Tower Hill click
4. The Custom House click
5. London Bridge &c from Southwark click
6. London from Greenwich click
7. Blackfriars from Southwark Bridge click
8. Westminster from Waterloo Bridge click
9. Westminster Abbey, Hospital &c. click
10. Board of Trade, Whitehall &c. from Downing Street click
11. Buckingham Palace from St James's Park click
12. N. front to St. James's Palace from Cleveland Row click
13. The Club Houses &c. Pall Mall click
14. The Horseguards &c. from St. James's Park click
15. Hyde Park Corner click
16. Hyde Park near Grosvenor Gate click
17. Picadilly looking towards the City click
18. Regent Street looking towards the Quadrant click
19. Regent Street looking towards the Duke of York's column click
20. Entry to the Strand from Charing Cross click
21. The Strand click
22. Temple Bar, from the Strand click
23. St. Dunstan's &c. Fleet Street click
24. St. Paul's from Ludgate Hill click
25. Guildhall click
26. The Bank, looking toward the Mansion House click

Extra lithograph not usually included in sets.

27. The Tower of London, as seen on October 31st 1841, the morning after the fire (image not available)

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THOMAS SHOTTER BOYS - LONDON AS IT IS (1842)

A set of 26 handcoloured lithographs (plus one additional one not usually in the set. This was one of the last important series to be handcoloured before colour printing processes took over.

The image below is The Tower and Mint, from Great Tower Hill. The tail-coated artist in the foreground is Shotter Boys himself..

The series was drawn as a monochrome publication. There were a small number of original handcoloured sets, said to have been coloured by Boys. The series is best known from facsimiles of these coloured versions.

The lithograph was printed in two stages, the first stone with the line drawing and the second with the areas of tone.

See below for a complete list and access to images of all of the plates.

This series of prints is Series 196 as catalogued in London Illustrated 1604-1851 by Bernard Adams.

ABOUT THOMAS SHOTTER BOYS

Notes by Ralph Hyde will be added.

There is also background on Thomas Shotter Boys in Bernard Adams's text from London Illustrated 1604-1851.

CD OF THIS SERIES

A CD is available containing the full set of standard and large size images for this series. The current version of the CD is No.0001 Version No.01.

SOURCE OF IMAGES AND COPYRIGHT

The images in this series in the Motco Enterprises Limited database were photographed from a disbound volume in the Motco collection. The colouring is good, but unlikely to be original. The images were photographed digitally at Ibase in Ilkley, Yorkshire. The images are deliberately recorded as the originals, including any imperfections or blemishes through ageing.

The larger (digital) images in the database are marked as Copyright Motco 2000. They may only be copied for personal use. If you require access to the images for commercial use, in hard copy or digital form, please contact Motco. A CD containing all the images is also available from Motco.

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