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Property from the Collection of Dr. Joseph D. Lichtenberg

Carleton E. Watkins

El Capitan, Yosemite

Lot Closed

April 13, 08:25 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

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Carleton E. Watkins

1829 - 1916

El Capitan, Yosemite


mammoth-plate albumen print, mounted, annotated 'Capitan, 3600 ft.' in pencil on the mount, framed, 1878-81

image: 21 by 15 in. (53.3 by 38.1 cm.)

frame: 30 ¾ by 24 ¾ in. (78.1 by 62.9 cm.)

Tartt Gallery, Washington, D. C., 1991

Weston Naef and Christine Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011), cat. no. 136