Oct 18, 2018 - Sale 2489

Sale 2489 - Lot 18

Unsold
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
CARLETON E. WATKINS (1829-1916)
El Capitan. Mammoth-plate albumen print, the image measuring 16x20 1/4 inches (40.6x51.4 cm.), the mount 21 1/4x25 3/4 inches (54x65.4 cm.), with a National Academy of Design hand stamp on mount verso. Circa 1861
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Additional Details

Acquired from Christie's East, New York, May 4, 1987, lot 428; to a Private New York Collector.

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