Carleton E. Watkins
Cape Horn, Columbia River, Oregon

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Artist Carleton E. WatkinsAmerican, 1829–1916

Printer Isaiah West Taber American, 1830–1912

CultureAmerican

Titles

Cape Horn, Columbia River, Oregon

Date1867

MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative

DimensionsImage: 20 5/16 × 15 1/16 in. (51.6 × 38.3 cm)
Mount: 26 × 19 15/16 in. (66 × 50.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2004.788

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 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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