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CARLETON E. WATKINS (1829–1916)
Bridalveil Fall in Springtime, Yosemite, 1865-1866
albumen print, mounted on board
signed and titled in pencil (mount, recto)
image/sheet: 15 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (39.3 x 52 cm.)
mount: 25 x 33 ½ in. (63.5 x 85 cm.)

Provenance
Private Collector, 1970s.
Literature
Carleton E. Watkins and Peter E. Palmquist, Carleton E. Watkins Photographs 1861-1874, Fraenkel Gallery; Bedford Arts Publishers, San Francisco, 1989, pl. 6.
Douglas R. Nickel and Maria Morris Hambourg, Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, San Francisco, 1999, p. 71, pl. 25.
Weston Naef and Christine Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2011, pl. 137, p. 67.
Carleton E. Watkins, Carleton E. Watkins: The Stanford Albums, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2014, p. 83.
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