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Shop and Warehouse of Duncan Phyfe, 168–172 Fulton Street, New York City

1817–20
Not on view
For many years this watercolor had been attributed to the New York portrait and landscape watercolorist John Rubens Smith. More recent scholarship suggests that the artist was an amateur--perhaps even an employee of Phyfe’s shop--familiar with engraved images of manufactories and shops of the kind printed on business cards and furniture labels and in newspaper advertisements. The picture corresponds almost precisely to such imagery, for example, in the way the buildings completely fill the picture space and in the contrived presentation of the shop’s wares in the central doorway.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Shop and Warehouse of Duncan Phyfe, 168–172 Fulton Street, New York City
  • Date: 1817–20
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Watercolor, ink, and gouache on white laid paper
  • Dimensions: 15 7/8 x 19 5/8 in. (40.3 x 49.8 cm)
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1922
  • Object Number: 22.28.1
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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