The Gordon L. Bennett Collection of Carleton Watkins New Series Photographs of Yosemite

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Lot 75
  • 75

Carleton E. Watkins 1829-1916

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Description

  • Carleton E. Watkins
  • selected yosemite new series views
a group of 4 mammoth-plate albumen prints, mounted, the photographer’s letterpress label, with the title, series number, series title, and his ‘427 Montgomery Street, San Francisco’ or ‘San Francisco’ studio address, affixed to the mount, the collector’s stamp on the reverse, matted, 1878-81 (4)

Provenance

The Old Book Store, San Francisco, 1967

Exhibited

Focus Gallery, San Francisco, Early Views of Yosemite and the California Missions: Photographs by Carleton E. Watkins from the Collection of Gordon Bennett, November – December 1973

Literature

Another print of No. 830, The Sentinel, reproduced in:

Naef, In Focus: Carleton Watkins (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997), pl. 22

Catalogue Note

The views in this group comprise:

No. 851. ‘View from Eagle Point, Yosemite’
[reproduced upper left]

No. 839. ‘Lower Yosemite Fall, 418 Feet Yosemite’
[reproduced lower left]

No. 804. ‘Tutocanula Pass, Yosemite’
[reproduced upper right]

No. 830. ‘The Sentinel. 3270 Ft. Yosemite’
[reproduced lower right]