John Coulson outside the Side Door of the Gardener's Cottage
Artist
Frederick K. Coulson
(American, 1869–1931)
DateDecember 31, 1905
Mediumcyanotype on cream wove paper
Dimensionsimage: 16.5 × 11.3 cm (6 1/2 × 4 7/16 in.)
sheet: 24.8 × 19.6 cm (9 3/4 × 7 11/16 in.)
bound: 25.4 × 20.5 × 2 cm (10 × 8 1/16 × 13/16 in.)
sheet: 24.8 × 19.6 cm (9 3/4 × 7 11/16 in.)
bound: 25.4 × 20.5 × 2 cm (10 × 8 1/16 × 13/16 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineEliza S. Paine Fund
Object number2010.270.27
DescriptionPhotograph from an album of 132 cyanotypes on cream wove paper.John Coulson stands at the side door of the gardener's cottage on the Salisbury estate, where he and his family resided for almost three decades. This photograph, made on the last day of 1905, represents a moment of transition, for the previous month Mr. Salisbury died, marking the end of the Salisbury House as a private residence. Frederick Coulson had moved to Pleasant Street in Worcester in 1904. In 1908 the rest of the Coulson family moved from the Salisbury estate to May Street in Worcester, where John Coulson operated a florist shop and lived until the age of eighty-one.
–"Frederick Coulson: Blueprints of a Golden Age," by James A. Welu, p.60, plate 39
ProvenanceLee Gallery, Winchester, MA
On View
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Frederick K. Coulson
December 12, 1900
