Eadweard Muybridge
Cap of the Liberty—Valley of Yosemite

Cap of the Liberty—Valley of Yosemite

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Cap of the Liberty—Valley of Yosemite
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Cap of the Liberty—Valley of Yosemite
Date1872
MediumAlbumen silver print
DimensionsImage: 16 9/16 × 21in. (42 × 53.3cm)
Frame (outer): 31 1/2 × 35 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (80 × 90.2 × 4.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2004.608
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceDeaccessioned by the Berkeley Library; Yerba Buena Books, San Francisco; ex-collection Michael Mattis, Los Alamos.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Michael Mattis Collection on 1/5/1990.
Exhibition History"The American Landscape East to West: Themes in Painting and Photography, 1780-1910," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 6, 2003-January 19, 2004.

"The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890 - 1950," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 29, 2006–January 28, 2007; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, March 4– June 3, 2007.

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