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The Yosemite Falls, from Glacier Point

1878-1881

Carleton E. Watkins

Artist, American, 1829 - 1916

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Artwork overview

Medium

albumen print
Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Diana and Mallory Walker
Dimensions

image: 59.2 × 39.4 cm (23 5/16 × 15 1/2 in.)
mount: 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22 in.)
Accession

2018.9.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, NM); (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), 2004; NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Isaacs, Charles

Exhibition History

2019

The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: CW/1623

Wikidata ID

Q64145691

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