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Watkins, Carleton E.
(1829-1916)El Capitan 3300 ft., Yo-Semite Valley, No. 7.

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 28.11.2026

(Attribued to). El Capitan, 3,300 ft., Yo-Semite Valley, No. 7. 1865-66. Mammoth-plate albumen print, printed ca. 1872, mounted to original board. 51,8 x 40 cm (mount 71,2 x 55,7 cm). With printed title, number and publisher’s imprint beneath the image: “Thomas Houseworth & Co.” and “No. 9 Montgomery St. San Francisco.”


A leading photographer of the American West, Carleton E. Watkins created his celebrated Yosemite views during expeditions of 1861 and 1865-66, using a custom mammoth-plate camera to record the valley’s monumental formations with extraordinary detail. Watkins’s early Yosemite photographs helped shape public appreciation of the region in the years surrounding the 1864 Yosemite Grant, the legislative precursor to the National Park System. Houseworth’s later issue under its own name demonstrates the broad commercial circulation of Watkins’s Yosemite views, whose large-format clarity established a defining nineteenth-century image of the American West.