Gardener's Cottage

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

DateJune 22, 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 number2010.271.178

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

Frederick Coiulson lived with his parents and siblings in the Salisbury gardener's cottage from 1876 to 1904. During this period the stars on the US flag increased in number from thirty-eight to the fourty-five seen here. Built about 1875, the gardener's cottage originally stood west of the Salisbury House along Highland Street. It was eventually moved to the southwest corner of the block now occupied by the Worcester Art museum. When the Museum constructed the Higgins Education Wing in the late 1960s, the cottage was the only house on the Museum's back lot that was salvaged. It was moved up Lancaster Street to the frist blck of Dix Street, where it still stands.
–"Frederick Coulson: Blueprints of a Golden Age," by James A. Welu, p.54, plate 33
ProvenanceLee Gallery, Winchester, MA

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