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Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916) Down the Valley, Yosemite, Cathedral Rocks, El Capitan, Yosemite, 1865/66

Sold for £1,100 at Chiswick Auctions on Nov 27, 2025.

Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916) Down the Valley, Yosemite, Cathedral Rocks, El Capitan, Yosemite, 1865/66 auction lot image

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Lot description

Mammoth plate albumen print from a wet collodion glass negative, printed c.1870, image size 52.3 x 40cm. Literature: Naef and Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011, cat. No. 150, p.71

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