This picture can be found in Wallace Nutting's 1912 Picture Catalog, on pg 22, and in the 1915 Expansible Catalog on pg 470. A very similar picture can be found with the title Sewing by the Fire.

This picture was taken in Wallace Nutting's Southbury, CT home he called "Nuttinghame". When he sold this house in 1912, the retired banker who had already made a deposit and was assured that he "owned" the house said, "I don't mind telling you that wild horses could not have pulled me out of this room."

Note that in this photograph the ceiling beams are exposed while in other photographs taken in this room the ceiling is plastered. Wallace Nutting explains: "The ceiling of the home-room was dilapidated plaster. This was removed and the beams thus exposed were cased in and painted white, thus giving us a little more head space and greatly enhancing the charm of the room."

This room was used as a backdrop more often than any other. I know of at least twenty-two other titles that were photographed in this room alone. They are: