CARLETON E. WATKINS (1829-1916) Mirror Lake and Mount Watkins, Yosemite. Mammoth albumen print, the image measuring 15⅜x20⅜ inches (39x51.7 cm.), with I.W. Taber's credit, title, and number 72 in the negative. 1861; printed 1870s
This view was made looking north toward Mount Watkins on the shore of Mirror Lake. It was one of 30 views Watkins selected in April of 1863 for the first publicly available set of mammoth prints (from his 1861 negatives).
Provenance: From the Collection of Dr. James and Debra Pearl
Reproduced: Weston Naef and Christine Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs (Getty), cat. no. 232, p. 103
