Classic Photographs

Carleton E. Watkins

El Capitan, 3600 Ft., Yosemite Valley

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October 5, 04:19 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Carleton E. Watkins

1829 - 1916

El Capitan, 3600 Ft., Yosemite Valley

mammoth-plate albumen print, mounted, with title and 'No. 19' in pencil on the reverse, 1861

image: 15 ½ by 20 ⅝ in. (39.4 by 52.4 cm.)

frame: 32 ½ by 27 in. (82.6 by 68.6 cm.)

Private collection, New England

Grogan & Company, Boston, 5 November 2017, Sale 161, Lot 106

Private collection, Massachusetts

Grogan & Company, Boston, 11 November 2018, Lot 126

Peter E. Palmquist and Jeffrey Fraenkel, Carleton E. Watkins: Photographs 1861–1874 (San Francisco, 1989), pl. 5

Weston Naef and Christine Lewis-Hult, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011), cat. no. 126, p. 63.

Tyler Green, Carleton Watkins: Making the West American (Oakland, 2018), p. 97

Prints of this image are in the following collections: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown (1998.42.6); Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York (1976-23-5); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (85.XM.11.4); and New York Public Library.