Pi-wy-ack (Cataract of Diamonds), Vernal Falls, Yosemite Valley, California
1867
Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 20.1 × 14.9 cm (7 15/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
mount: 25.6 × 35.3 cm (10 1/16 × 13 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2019.93.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Angela Russo, Provincetown, MA; (Richard Moore Photographs, Oakland, CA), 2012; NGA purchase, 2019.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
by artist, bottom right in negative: Helios; printed, lower center underneath image in black ink: ENTERED according to Act of Congress, A.D. 1868, by E. J. MUYBRIDGE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the united States for the Northern District of California.; on verso, center printed in black ink on applied label: YO-SEM-I-TE VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. / PI-WY-ACK, (Cataract of Diamonds). / VERNAL, 350 feet fall. / HELIOS, / Cosmopolitan Gallery of Photographic Art, / Montgomery St., San Francisco. / Entered according to Act of Congress, 1868, / by E. J. MUYBRIDGE, / in Clerk's Office of / Dist. Court U. S., District California.