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Carleton E. Watkins

The Yosemite Falls, from Glacier Point, 1878-1881

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Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Diana and Mallory Walker

Accession Number

2018.9.2

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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.

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