Coulson's Sister Smoking a Cigarette
Artist
Frederick K. Coulson
(American, 1869–1931)
DateFebruary 10, 1895
Mediumcyanotype on cream wove paper
Dimensionsimage: 10.8 × 15.7 cm (4 1/4 × 6 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 number2010.271.41
DescriptionPhotograph from an album of 208 cyanotypes on cream wove paper.Frederick Coulson captures a young woman, likely one of his sisters, in the act of smoking, considered improper behavior for a woman at the time. Here, in the middle of winter, the Salisbury greenhouse is an ideal escape for her vice. The inexpensive and convenient process of cyanotype printing was conducive to such candid images.
–"Frederick Coulson: Blueprints of a Golden Age," by James A. Welu, p.38, plat 17
ProvenanceLee Gallery, Winchester, MA
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