Stephen Salisbury's Parlor

Artist Frederick K. Coulson (American, 1869–1931)

Date1894

Mediumcyanotype on cream wove paper

Dimensionsimage: 12 × 17.1 cm (4 3/4 × 6 3/4 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 number2010.271.33

DescriptionPhotograph from an album of 208 cyanotypes on cream wove paper.

This view of the main parlor in the Salisbury House shows two of the marble sculptures that Stephen Salisbury II acquired during a trip to Europe in 1853. "Boy Playing Marbles" (in front of the fireplace), by the American sculptor Thomas Crawford, and the figure of Flora (between the windows) are now in the collection of the Worcester Art Museum. It was in this room in 1896 that fifty of Worcester's leading citizens responded to Stephen Salisbury III's invitation to join him in establishing the Museum.
–"Frederick Coulson: Blueprints of a Golden Age," by James A. Welu, p.36, plate 15
ProvenanceLee Gallery, Winchester, MA

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