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.)
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
On View
Not on view
Frederick K. Coulson
late 19th–early 20th century
