Feb 14, 2017 - Sale 2436

Sale 2436 - Lot 11

Unsold
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

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.