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PHOTOGRAPHS
ARTIST
Carleton Watkins
Size
16 3/8 x 20 5/8 in. (41.6 x 52.4 cm)
Description
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM A PROMINENT NEW YORK COLLECTION
Medium
Mammoth-plate albumen print.
Signature
Signed, annotated 'No. 21' in ink and titled in an unidentified hand in pencil on the mount.
Literature
Naef and Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, p. 73, fig. 157
Naef and Wood, Era of Exploration: The Rise of Landscape Photography in the American West, 1860-1885, pl. 13
Fraenkel Gallery, Carleton E. Watkins, Photographs, pl. 9
Wolf, The American Space: Meaning in Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography, pl. 29
Brown, American Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts, Photography, fig. 351
Rosenblum, A World History of Photography, no. 148
Hyde, Yosemite and Sequoia: A Century of California National Parks, p. 4