River View of the Royal Arches, Yosemite
1861
Artist, American, 1829 - 1916

Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 40.96 × 52.39 cm (16 1/8 × 20 5/8 in.)
sheet: 53.02 × 68.26 cm (20 7/8 × 26 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.5009
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco); partial purchase and gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2005; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2008
The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 1 – July 27, 2008
Bibliography
1989
Carleton E. Watkins: Photographs 1861-1874. Exh. cat. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 1989: pl. 27.
2010
Eadweard Muybridge. Exh. cat., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Tate, London; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. London, 2010: 42, 355, fig. 24.
2011
Naef, Weston and Christine Hult-Lewis. Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2011: 100, no. 225.
Inscriptions
signed by artist, bottom right below image in brown ink: C. E. Watkins –; bottom right along edge in graphite: River View of the Royal Arches–; by unknown hand, upper right outside image: 45–; bottom center along edge: CEW.188.X
Wikidata ID
Q64145688