Feb 15, 2018 - Sale 2466

Sale 2466 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
CARLETON E. WATKINS (1829-1916)
The Great Yo Semite Falls. Mammoth-plate albumen print, the image measuring 15 5/8x20 1/2 inches (39.6x52.1 cm.), the mount 21 1/2x27 1/2 inches (54.6x69.9 cm.), with a title, in pencil, on mount recto. 1861; printed circa 1865

Additional Details

Naef and Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins, The Complete Mammoth Photographs (The J. Paul Getty Museum), pl. 195, p. 88 (where it is titled Yosemite Falls, Front View).