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CARLETON E.WATKINS (1829-1916)
Half Dome from Glacier Point,Yosemite.
Mammoth-plate albumen print, 15
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8
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8
inches (39.7x52.4
cm.), on the original mount measuring 22x28 inches (55.9x71.1 cm.), withWatkins’ credit and the
title, in pencil, on mount recto. 1865-66
[4,000/6,000]
From the Estate of Nanette Sexton, whose doctoral dissertation titled
Carleton E.Watkins: Pioneer
California Photographer, 1829-1916
(Harvard, 1982), not only served as the foundation for much of
the later research onWatkins, but was also one of the very first art history dissertations to focus on
the photographic medium.
Watkins made this photograph looking north-northeast from Glacier Point toward Tenaya Canyon.
His inventory number was 101.
Era of Exploration,
pl. 22 and fig. 168.
Weston Naef and Christine Hult-Lewis,
Carleton Watkins,The Complete Mammoth Photographs,
cat.
no. 266.
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