View from Dean St. showing Wachuseet and Lancaster Streets
Artist
Frederick K. Coulson
(American, 1869–1931)
Datelate 19th–early 20th century
Mediumcyanotype on cream wove paper
Dimensionsimage: 11.2 × 18.2 cm (4 7/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
sheet: 19.6 × 24.8 cm (7 11/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
bound: 20.5 × 25.4 × 2 cm (8 1/16 × 10 × 13/16 in.)
sheet: 19.6 × 24.8 cm (7 11/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
bound: 20.5 × 25.4 × 2 cm (8 1/16 × 10 × 13/16 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineEliza S. Paine Fund
Object number2010.271.4
DescriptionPhotograph from an album of 208 cyanotypes on cream wove paper.By the mid-1890s, when this photograph was made, the streets that are noted – Dean, Wachusett, and Lancaster – were new and soon to be lined with residences. On the left can be seen the Worcester Society of Antiquity and Central Church. The open space in the distance, with the three houses at the right, was give by Stephen Salisbury III in 1896 for the construction of the Worcester Art Museum. THe Museum building was completed and opened two years later.
–"Frederick Coulson: Blueprints of a Golden Age," by James A. Welu, p.45, plate 24
ProvenanceLee Gallery, Winchester, MA
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