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Thomas Shotter Boys
1803-1874
Hotel de Sens, Paris / S. Boys.
[London : Thomas Shotter Boys, 1839]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.770
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[London : Thomas Shotter Boys, 1839]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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.
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.
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