CARLETON E WATKINS (1829 1916) The Golden Gate from Telegrap

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Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000

CARLETON E. WATKINS (1829-1916)
The Golden Gate from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco. Albumen print, the image measuring 8 1/8x12 inches (20.6x30.5 cm.), with Watkins' signature and title, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1868

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Additional Details

This sweeping photograph is also titled Golden Gate Entrance to Harbor of San Francisco.

A rare and early view of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bay, decades before the Bridge was erected (in 1933).

This is a detail of the full image that appears in Carleton E. Watkins: Photographs 1861-1874 (Fraenkel Gallery), pl. 64.