Carleton E. Watkins
Down the Valley, Yosemite, Cathedral Rocks, El Capitan, Yosemite

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Artist Carleton E. Watkins(American, 1829–1916)American, 1829–1916

CultureAmerican

Titles

Down the Valley, Yosemite, Cathedral Rocks, El Capitan, Yosemite

Date1865–1866

MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative

DimensionsImage: 15 5/8 × 20 9/16 in. (39.7 × 52.2 cm)
Mount: 20 15/16 × 26 15/16 in. (53.2 × 68.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by The Brown Foundation, Inc., The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2004.789

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceJeffrey Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Jeffrey Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, on 4/28/1985.
Exhibition History"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

Inscribed in pencil, mount recto, bottom center: CEW.197.X; bottom right: Down the Valley - Cathedral Rocks - El Capitan; upper right corner: 16.
Inscribed in red ink: Z

Signed in ink, recto, below left corner of image: C.E. Watkins

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