Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Property from the Collection of Dr. Joseph D. Lichtenberg
Carleton E. Watkins
El Capitan, Yosemite
Lot Closed
October 5, 02:56 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Carleton E. Watkins
1829 - 1916
El Capitan, Yosemite
mammoth-plate albumen print, mounted, annotated 'Capitan, 3600 ft.' in pencil on the mount, framed, 1878-81
image: 21 by 15 in. (53.3 by 38.1 cm.)
frame: 30 ¾ by 24 ¾ in. (78.1 by 62.9 cm.)
Tartt Gallery, Washington, D. C., 1991
Weston Naef and Christine Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011), cat. no. 136