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Carleton E. Watkins — 'El Capitan. 3600 Ft. Yosemite'
Carleton E. Watkins

'El Capitan. 3600 Ft. Yosemite'

Carleton E. Watkins' 'El Capitan. 3600 Ft. Yosemite' is a mammoth-plate albumen print from 1878-81 featuring the photographer's original letterpress label and studio address. This large-scale landscape photograph exemplifies 19th-century American landscape photography at its most monumental.

Medium
mammoth-plate albumen print, mounted, the photographer’s letterpress label, with the title, series number '828,' series title, and his ‘427 Montgomery Street, San Francisco’ studio address, affixed to the mount, a 'Gordon L. Bennett Collection' stamp on the reverse, framed, 1878-81
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Auction House · Sotheby's

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Photographs

March 29, 2021

Estimate: $40,000 – $60,000

Lot 46

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Carleton E. Watkins, 'El Capitan. 3600 Ft. Yosemite'

Carleton E. Watkins' 'El Capitan. 3600 Ft. Yosemite' is a mammoth-plate albumen print from 1878-81 featuring the photographer's original letterpress label and studio address. This large-scale landscape photograph exemplifies 19th-century American landscape photography at its most monumental.

Medium
mammoth-plate albumen print, mounted, the photographer’s letterpress label, with the title, series number '828,' series title, and his ‘427 Montgomery Street, San Francisco’ studio address, affixed to the mount, a 'Gordon L. Bennett Collection' stamp on the reverse, framed, 1878-81
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Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Monochrome, Albumen Print, Documentary, 19th Century, American, Photograph, Sublime, Landscape, Nature, Mountain

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Collected by

Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art