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Watkins #8 - El Capitan, Yosemite
Image courtesy of: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles   (Accession Number 85.XM.11.4)
Photographers number:8
Title:El Capitan, Yosemite
Inscription:Recto mount: Signed in black ink l.r. below image, and inscribed in pencil by CEW, Tutucanula--El Capitan 3600 ft.__Yo Semite
Date Photographed: 1861
Catalog:Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, cat. no. 130
Notes:CMP notes: The signed dome top print at Nevada Museum of Art (NMA) has an unusual title calligraphed below print: Mountain 3600 ft. high Yo Semite, California

Photographer:Carleton E Watkins   (Nov 11, 1829 — Jun 23, 1916;  Active approx. 1853 — 1896)
Publisher:Carleton Watkins
Format:Mammoth Plate
Medium:Albumen
Image Size:15 3⁄8  x  20 3⁄16  in.  (39.1 x 51.3 cm)  —  Horizontal, Dome Top
Mount Size:22  x  28   in.  (55.9 x 71.1 cm)
Provenance to 1900:National Academy of Design Museum  (source: 1985/JPGM notes)

View this image in gallery:Yosemite Valley
Link to image source:http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/55584/carleton-watkins-el-capitan-3600-ft-yo-semite-american-negative-1861-print-about-1866/
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