Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Day Sale

Eadweard Muybridge

'Panorama of San Francisco, from California-St. Hill'

Auction Closed

May 2, 05:08 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Eadweard Muybridge

1830 - 1904

'Panorama of San Francisco, from California-St. Hill'

(San Francisco: Morse's Gallery, 1877), a panorama of 11 albumen prints, mounted together to linen, framed, 1877

overall: approximately 7¼ by 86 in. (18.4 by 218.4 cm.)

frame: 18 by 96¾ in. (45.7 by 245.7 cm.)

The original maroon covers, with the title and photographer's name in gilt, are framed with the panorama.

Sotheby’s New York, 22 April 2006, Sale 8189, Lot 65

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, The Inaugural Exhibition, March – June 2010

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Here, May 2011 – January 2012

Photographers Looking At Photographs: 75 Pictures from The Pilara Foundation (San Francisco, 2019), p. 95 (this print)

Wilkes Tucker, Target III: In Sequence, Photographic Sequences from The Target Collection of American Photography (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1982), pp. 34-6

David Harris and Eric Sandweiss, Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco, 1950-1880 (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1993), pp. 116-8

This 11-part panoramic view of San Francisco was taken from the central tower of the Mark Hopkins residence, at the corner of California and Mason Streets, on Nob Hill. According to David Harris, author of Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco, 1850-1880:

'The panorama took Muybridge approximately five hours to complete. He began in late morning with the view towards the south-west (now plate 10 of the panorama) and moved in a clockwise direction (proceeding through plates 11 and 1-9), moving the camera away from the sun. By mid-afternoon when he made his final view (plate 9), the sun had moved 90-degrees' (p. 118).