Thomas Shotter Boys RWS (1803-1874)

Thomas Shotter Boys RWS (1803-1874)
View of Southampton docks, with figures by a rowing boat and shipping in calm waters beyond.
Pencil and watercolour
10.9 x 17.7cm; 4¼ x 7in

Provenance:
Walter C Hetherington;
His sale, Christie’s, London, The Hethering Collection of English Drawings and Watercolours, 14 February 1978, lot 6;
The Leger Galleries, London, 1978;
Where purchased by the present private collector

Exhibited:
London, The Leger Galleries, Exhibition of English Watercolours, November-December, 1978, no.24

It has been suggested that rather than Southampton, the present work must depict one of the naval dockyards of Chatham, Portsmouth or Plymouth.