Piwyac, Vernal Fall, 300 feet, Yosemite
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 39.9 x 52.3 cm (15 11/16 x 20 9/16 in.) mount: 53.2 x 68.7 cm (20 15/16 x 27 1/16 in.) mat: 66 x 76.1 cm (26 x 29 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and David Robinson
Accession Number
1995.35.23
About the Artist
Carleton E. Watkins · 1829–1916
Carleton E. Watkins (1829–1916), one of America's pioneering landscape photographers, was born on November 11, 1829, in Oneonta, New York, the eldest of eight children to carpenter John Watkins and innkeeper Julia. Drawn by the Gold Rush, he arrived in San Francisco in 1851 at age 22 alongside childhood friend Collis Huntington, who later became a railroad tycoon. Initially working as a carpenter ...