Feb 25, 2016 - Sale 2406

Sale 2406 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200
CHARLES WEED (1824-1903) attributed to
Yosemite reflection * Nevada Falls. Together, 2 arch-topped albumen prints, 7 1/2x9 inches (19x22.9 cm.), and the reverse, on contemporary supports. 1859-72

Additional Details

From the Estate of Nanette Sexton.

Charles Weed took some of the first, if not the very first, photographs of the Yosemite Valley in 1859. Weed returned to the Valley in 1872, perhaps with Eadweard Muybridge.