View from the Sentinel Dome, Yosemite
1865–66
Medium
Albumen silver prints from glass negatives
Dimensions
Image 1: 40.3 × 52.1 cm (15 7/8 × 20 1/2 in.) Mount 1: 53.4 x 68.7cm (21 x 27 1/16in.) Image 2: 40.0 x 52.5 cm (15 3/4 x 20 11/16 in.) Mount 2: 53.3 x 68.8cm (21 x 27 1/16in.) Image 3: 40.8 x 52.5cm (16 1/16 x 20 11/16in.) Mount 3: 53.2 x 68.7cm (20 15/16 x 27 1/16in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1989
Accession Number
1989.1084.1–.3
Tags
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 ...