Oct 18, 2018 - Sale 2489

Sale 2489 - Lot 20

Unsold
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
CARLETON E. WATKINS (1828-1916)
Up the Valley Looking Back, The Cathedral Rocks, El Capitan. Mammoth-plate albumen print, the image measuring 15x21 inches (38.1x53.3 cm.), the mount 20 1/2x25 3/4 inches (52.1x65.4 cm.), with a calligraphic title, in ink, in an unknown hand, on mount recto. Circa 1861

Additional Details

From the Park-McCullough House Collection; to Jonathan Stein; to a Private New York Collector, 1985.

Naef and Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins, The Complete Mammoth Photographs (The J. Paul Getty Museum), cat. no. 154, p. 72 (variant: View Down Yosemite Valley).