Feb 13, 2025 - Sale 2694

Sale 2694 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
CARLETON E. WATKINS (1829-1916)
The Domes from Yosemite Valley. 1865-66; printed 1870s.
Mammoth albumen print, the image measuring 15¾x20½ inches (40x52 cm.), the mount 22x28 inches (55.9x.1 cm.), with I.W. Taber's credit, slightly variant title, and number "58" in the negative.

Provenance
The Collection of Dr. James and Debra Pearl

According to Weston Naef, this view was made looking east from the vicinity of the confluence of Indian Canyon Creek with the Merced River.

Reproduced
Weston Naef and Christine Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs (Getty), cat. no. 213, p. 95