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

20 c CARLETON E. WATKINS (1828-1916) Up the Valley Looking Back, The Cathedral Rocks, El Capitan. Mammoth-plate albumen print, the image measuring 15x21 inches (38.1x53.3 cm.), the mount 20 1 / 2 x25 3 / 4 inches (52.1x65.4 cm.), with a calligraphic title, in ink, in an unknown hand, on mount recto. Circa 1861 [10,000/15,000] From the Park-McCullough House Collection; to Jonathan Stein; to a Private New York Collector, 1985. Naef and Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins, The Complete Mammoth Photographs (The J. Paul Getty Museum), cat. no. 154, p. 72 (variant: View Down Yosemite Valley ).