Plaster Cast of the Portal of Labna, American Antiquarian Society
Artist
Frederick K. Coulson
(American, 1869–1931)
DateDecember 12, 1900
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 number2010.270.71
DescriptionThis photograph is from an album of 132 cyanotypes on cream wove paper.When Coulson made this photograph inside the American Antiquarian Society, the library was located in Lincoln Square at the corner of HIghland Street across from the Salisbury estate. Coulson focuses on a reproduction of the portal of Labna made from the Mayan temple in the Yucatan by Worcester native Edward H. Thompson. During his presidency at the American Antiquarian Scoiety, Stephen Salisbury III sponsored Thompson's archeological research in the Yucatan, resulting in a large number of pre-Columbian objects being added to the American Antiquarian Society.
–"Frederick Coulson: Blueprints of a Golden Age," by James A. Welu, p.58, plate 37
ProvenanceLee Gallery, Winchester, MA
On View
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Frederick K. Coulson
late 19th–early 20th century
