City Residence of Mr. Daniel Parish, New York

Printer Endicott & Co. American
ca. 1857
Not on view
This Italianate brownstone mansion, built in 1857 for Daniel Parish (1796-1880), millionaire clothing merchant of H. & D. Parish in New York City, stood at the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 16th Street. According to Gloria G. Deak's publication, "Picturing America..." (Princeton: 1988, vol. 1, p. 485), the designer of this house was Frederick Diaper, an English architect who had been a pupil of Sir Robert Smirke in London, and a former partner of Frederick Catherwood. Parish continued to live there until his death in 1880; the building is no longer standing. Also in the 1850s, Daniel Parish built the Newport, Rhode Island, mansion named "Beechwood" (acquired in 1880 by the Astor family). The Newport-based artist of this print, John Perry Newell, was introduced to lithography in the Boston shop of John Henry Bufford. The printer, Endicott and Company, established by the brothers George and William Endicott, flourished in New York City throughtout the nineteenth century; their firm printed many noteworthy views of New York City.

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Object Information
  • Title: City Residence of Mr. Daniel Parish, New York
  • Artist: John Perry Newell (American, Newport, Rhode Island 1831–1898 Brighton, England)
  • Printer: Endicott & Co. (New York, NY)
  • Date: ca. 1857
  • Medium: Lithograph with tint stone
  • Dimensions: Image only: 15 × 18 in. (38.1 × 45.7 cm)
    Image with ruled border and text: 16 1/2 × 18 5/16 in. (41.9 × 46.5 cm)
    Sheet: 19 3/8 × 23 1/2 in. (49.2 × 59.7 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954
  • Object Number: 54.90.1448
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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