CARLETON E WATKINS (1829 1916) Yosemite Valley from the Best

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Sale 2684 - Lot 6

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

CARLETON E. WATKINS (1829-1916)
Yosemite Valley from the Best General View. 1865-66; printed prior to 1876.
Albumen print, the image measuring 8x12¼ inches (20.3x31.1 cm.), the mount 12x18½ inches (30.5x47 cm.).

This print was made before 1876, when it was included in an album compiled at the Centennial Exposition of 1876 in Philadelphia.

Provenance
A California Collection

Reproduced
Weston Naef and Christine Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins, The Complete Mammoth Photographs (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011), cat. no. 116, p. 58

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