View on the Columbia, Cascades
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
40.0 x 52.4 cm (15 3/4 x 20 5/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Warner Communications Inc. Purchase Fund and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1979
Accession Number
1979.622
Tags
RiversLandscapes
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 ...