Photographs
Photographs
Charles Leander Weed
'Yo-semite Valley from the Mariposa Trail'
Lot Closed
April 13, 08:26 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Charles Leander Weed
1824 - 1903
'Yo-semite Valley from the Mariposa Trail'
mammoth-plate albumen print, mounted, with printed title and Lawrence & Houseworth publishers’ information on the mount, the publisher’s letterpress ‘Photographic Views of California Scenery’ label on the reverse, framed, 1864, printed between 1864 and 1870
image: 17 ⅛ by 20 ⅞ in. (43.5 by 53 cm.)
frame: 24 ¼ by 28 in. (61.6 by 71.1 cm.)
In 1864 Charles Leander Weed began his association with the publishers Lawrence & Houseworth , who contracted with him to produce large images of Yosemite and adjacent areas. By 1866, the firm listed his mammoth-plate photographs for sale in their catalogue, as follows: ‘Yosemite Valley and Big Tree Views, Negatives by C. L. Weed, Size 22 by 28 inches.’
Weed is widely believed to have been the first photographer to work in Yosemite.is 1859 trip there, made under the auspices of publisher and Yosemite promoter James Mason Hutchings, yielded approximately twenty 10-by-14-inch views and forty stereo images. For his 1864 photographic expedition to the Valley, Weed was equipped with a larger camera and larger glass plates, and was thus able to produce the impressive mammoth-plate print offered here, in addition to a new series of stereo views.