Boys, Thomas Shotter (1803 – 1874) – Wales; Porthmadog, looking up the High Street with Moel y Gest on the left.

Boys made sketching tours of Wales and the Midlands in 1858 and 1859. Welsh subjects appears in his submissions to New Watercolour Society exhibitions of the late 1850s and early 1860s. In this watercolour, Boys contrasts the beautifully observed high street with mountains that dramatically rise up behind it. The work can be compared with Boys' watercolour of 'The Old Well Walk, Cheltenham' in the Wilson Art Gallery, Cheltenham.