Ansel Adams

plate 4 from Portfolio IV (San Francisco, 1963), mounted, signed by the photographer in ink on the mount, the portfolio label, numbered '138' in an unidentified hand in ink, on the reverse, matted, 1963, no. 138 in a total edition of 260 (400 Photographs, p. 403; Portfolios, p. 64; Lane Collection, pl. 64; Letters and Images, p. 301; Examples, p. 148; Classic Images, pl. 70)

This print is in generally excellent condition. There is a pencil-point-sized nick in the middle-left of the print and very minor edge-chipping. In raking light, a 2-inch diagonal indentation in the left-center quadrant of the print is visible. The cream-colored mount is in generally very good condition, with only slight yellowing at the periphery. There are faint graphite smudges at the lower right of the mount, and the reverse of the mount is slightly soiled.
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