Dismantling of Greenhouse
Artist
Frederick K. Coulson
(American, 1869–1931)
DateJune 21, 1895
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 number2010.271.108
DescriptionPhotograph from an album of 208 cyanotypes on cream wove paper.Workers, taking advantage of the longest day of the year to dismantle the majority of the Salisbury greenhouses (to be replaced with modern glasshouses), pose for the camera. The man at the right stands on top of a stepped structure that held plants inside the old, barrel-vaulted greenhouse constructed for Stephen Salisbury II. It was inside that greenhouse that Frederick Coulson often took photographs and where he apparently developed his early cyanotypes.
–"Frederick Coulson: Blueprints of a Golden Age," by James A. Welu, p.42, plate 21
ProvenanceLee Gallery, Winchester, MA
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