Vegetable Gardens

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

Date1890

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 number2010.271.160

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

This cyanotype shows the vegetable gardens behind the Salisbury House, including cold frames along the fence bordering Institute Road. The large building on the hill in the distance is Salisbury Laboratories, on the campus of Worcester Polytechnic institute. This building, completed in 1888, was funded by Stephen Salisbury III in memory of his father, Stephen II, who was the school's first president and gave the school its initial gift of land. When Frederick Coulson began photographing around theSalisbury estate, much of the neighborhood was undeveloped. However, wihtin a decade, most of it was given over to housing and public buildings.
–"Frederick Coulson: Blueprints of a Golden Age," by James A. Welu, p.23, plate 2
ProvenanceLee Gallery, Winchester, MA

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