Cape Horn, Columbia River, Oregon, 1867

Not on View

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

overall: 50.1 x 38.1 cm (19 3/4 x 15 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

1995.36.126

Artists / Makers

Carleton E. Watkins (artist) American, 1829 - 1916

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left printed: 419. Cape Horn, Columbia River, Oregon.; lower right printed: Taber Photo, San Francisco; all by later hands, on mount: lower right in graphite: 1867 / CW.165.X

Provenance

David and Mary Robinson, Sausalito, CA; NGA purchase, 1995.

Associated Names

Fraenkel Gallery
Robinson, Mrs. C. David

Exhibition History

1986: 19th Century Photographs from the Collection of Mary and David Robinson, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1986.

1995: Seeing Things, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 1995.

1995: The First Century of Photography: New Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

1999: Photographs from the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999.

Bibliography

1989: Carleton E. Watkins: Photographs 1861-1874. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 1989, illus. pl.93.

1990: Greenough 1990, illus. pl. 102.