Cape Horn near Celilo, Columbia River, Oregon, 1867

Price Realised USD 100,000

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Closed: 19 Jul 2018

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CARLETON E. WATKINS (1829–1916)

Cape Horn near Celilo, Columbia River, Oregon, 1867

Price Realised USD 100,000

Closed: 19 Jul 2018

Price Realised USD 100,000

Closed: 19 Jul 2018

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CARLETON E. WATKINS (1829–1916)
Cape Horn near Celilo, Columbia River, Oregon, 1867
mammoth-plate albumen print, mounted on card
titled, dated '1868' and numbered '456' in pencil (mount, recto)
image/sheet: 16 1/4 x 20 1/2 in. (41.2 x 52 cm.)
mount: 22 x 28 in. (55.9 x 71.1 cm.)

Gifted by Paul F. Walter, 1984.

Weston J. Naef, Era of Exploration: The Rise of Landscape Photography in the American West, 1860–1885, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo/The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975, pl. 29.
Daniel Wolf (ed.), The American Space: Meaning in Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut, 1983, pl. 91.
Exhibition catalogue, The Art of Photography 1839–1989, The Royal Academy of the Arts, London, 1989, p. 122.
Exhibition catalogue, On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1989, pl. 102.
Exhibition catalogue, The Waking Dream: Photography's First Century. Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1993, cat. no. 159, pl. 122, p. 167.
Exhibition catalogue, Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1999, pl. 71, p. 153.
Weston Naef and Chistine Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2011, pl. 507, p. 216.

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