Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

19 18 18 c CARLETON E. WATKINS (1829-1916) El Capitan. Mammoth-plate albumen print, the image measuring 16x20 1 / 4 inches (40.6x51.4 cm.), the mount 21 1 / 4 x25 3 / 4 inches (54x65.4 cm.), with a National Academy of Design hand stamp on mount verso. Circa 1861 [6,000/9,000] Acquired from Christie’s East, New York, May 4, 1987, lot 428; to a Private New York Collector. Naef and Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins, The Complete Mammoth Photographs (The J. Paul Getty Museum), cat. no. 126, p. 63. 19 c CARLETON E. WATKINS (1829-1916) Distant View of Nevada Fall, Yosemite. Mammoth- plate albumen print, the image measuring 20 3 / 4 x15 3 / 4 inches (52.7x40 cm.), the mount 22 3 / 4 x18 inches (57.8x45.7 cm.). Circa 1861 [5,000/7,500] Acquired Phillips, New York, April 26, 1999, lot 159; to a Private New York Collector. Naef and Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins, The Complete Mammoth Photographs (The J. Paul Getty Museum), cat. no. 272, p. 120.