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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Thomas Shotter Boys
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(1803–1874) English watercolourist and printmaker who spent much of his early career in Paris, where he became a friend of *Bonington (the two often painted the same scenes together). In Paris Boys also learnt the relatively new craft of lithography, a skill which bore fruit in a large volume profoundly significant in the development of colour printing. This is Boys' magnificent Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen (1839), on which he worked with the lithographic printer Charles Hullmandel. It is the first successful reproduction of watercolours in the technique which became known as chromolithography.
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