Lithographic artist
Charles R. Parsons
Currier & Ives’s artist of great harbours and cities, drawn from high above the water.
On Picturepops™ cards · 2
The life
1844–1918Born Brooklyn, New York, USA
Charles Richard Parsons was the son of the lithographer Charles Parsons, who ran the art department at Harper’s. With his partner Lyman Atwater he drew more than thirty prints for Currier & Ives, famous for their ships and their sweeping bird’s-eye views of American cities. Our card The City of Baltimore is his 1880 view, published by Currier & Ives, and his work also appears in San Francisco, Market Street.