Seal Point, Farallon Islands, Pacific Ocean

1879–1880

Carleton E. Watkins

Artist, American, 1829 - 1916

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    albumen print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the UBS Art Collection

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 12.1 × 20.7 cm (4 3/4 × 8 1/8 in.)
    mount: 13.6 × 21.5 cm (5 3/8 × 8 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2023.30.157

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ); Paine Webber & Co., New York, 10 March 1997; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower center on mount printed in black ink: B 128 SEAL POINT, FARALLONE [sic] ISLANDS, P. O. / WATKINS' NEW BOUDOIR [illegible] YOSEMITE AND PACIFIC COAST, 26 New Montgomery Street, under Palace Hotel, S. F.; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: PW 7189

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