View Looking Northwest from the Johnson Farm
Artist
Frederick K. Coulson
(American, 1869–1931)
DateMarch 24, 1898
Mediumcyanotype on cream wove paper
Dimensions24.8 x 29.2 cm (sheets), 25.4 x 20.5 x 2.0 cm (bound)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineEliza S. Paine Fund
Object number2010.271.102
DescriptionPhotograph from an album of 208 cyanotypes on cream wove paper.This cyanotype documents three homes along Salisbury Street west of Park Avenue that are no longer standing. The colonial home at the right was the birthplace of George Bancroft, who wrote the first comprehensive history of the United States and, as Secretary of the Navy, founded the US Naval Academy in Annapolis. The large house next to the Bancroft home was built in 1894 for Fred H. Daniels. The third house and adjoining barns were part of the Johnson Farm, acquired by Stephen Salisbury III in 1894. Shortly after this photograph was made, the Johnson Farm and adjacent land was developed by Salisbury into a residential neighborhood, appropriately named Bancroft Heights.
–"Frederick Coulson: Blueprints of a Golden Age," by James A. Welu, p.50, plate 29
ProvenanceLee Gallery, Winchester, MA
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