Oct 18, 2018 - Sale 2489

Sale 2489 - Lot 17

Unsold
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
CARLETON E. WATKINS (1829-1916)
Cascade, Nevada Falls. Arch-topped mammoth-plate albumen print, the image measuring 16 1/2x20 1/2 inches (41.9x52.1 cm.), the mount 21 1/4x25 3/4 inches (54x65.4 cm.), with Watkins' signature, in ink, and title "Cascade Nevada," in pencil, on mount recto. Circa 1861

Additional Details

Acquired from Jonathan Stein; to a Private New York Collector, 1985.

This print was featured in the exhibition "Carleton E. Watkins, Photographer of the West," at the Amon Carter Museum in 1983, and reproduced in the monograph, pl. 13.

Naef and Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins, The Complete Mammoth Photographs (The J. Paul Getty Museum), pl. 246, p. 109.

Palmquist, Carleton E. Watkins, 1861-1874 (Fraenkel Gallery), p. 31.