Ansel Adams

mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, a Carmel studio stamp, title and date in ink, on the reverse, framed, circa 1948, printed in 1977 (400 Photographs, pp. 184 and 424)

This photograph is in generally excellent condition. The reverse of the mount is hinged to a mat along its upper and lower edges with 4 small pieces of tape. Although Karen Haas's and Rebecca Senf's book, 'Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection,' publishes the most comprehensive list to date of the studio stamps and labels Adams used throughout his career, the Carmel studio stamp on the reverse of the present mount is not reproduced. The stamp is dated with both the negative and printing dates in an unidentified hand in ink.
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