Carleton E. Watkins
Cape Horn, Columbia River, Oregon

PrinterAmerican, 1830–1912
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Cape Horn, Columbia River, Oregon
Date1867
Place depictedOregon, United States
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 20 1/4 × 15 1/16 in. (51.5 × 38.3 cm)
Sheet: 20 1/4 × 15 1/16 in. (51.5 × 38.3 cm)
Mount: 25 7/8 × 19 15/16 in. (65.8 × 50.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2004.788
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceJeffrey Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Jeffrey Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, on 11/11/1978.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited:"The American Landscape East to West: Themes in Painting and Photography, 1780-1910" at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, september 6, 2003-January 19, 2004.

"American Made: 250 Years of American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 7 July 2012 - 2 January 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked on image, lower left: 419. Cape Horn, Columbia River, Oregon
Lower right: Taber Photo, San Francisco
Marked recto, lower right corner of mount in pencil: CEW.130.Y
There is no evident signature.

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