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CARLETON E. WATKINS (1829–1916)
Cape Horn, Columbia River, Washington Territory, 1867
mammoth-plate albumen print, mounted on card
titled and numbered '419' in pencil (mount, recto)
image/sheet: 21 x 16 in. (53.3 x 40.5 cm.)
mount: 28 x 22 in. (71.1 x 55.9 cm.)

Provenance
Gifted by Paul F. Walter, 1984.
Literature
Daniel Wolf (ed.), The American Space: Meaning in Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut, 1983, pl. 19.
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.
Weston Naef and Chistine Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2011, pl. 454, p. 196.
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