About This Artwork

Carleton Watkins
American, 1829–1916

First View of the Yosemite Valley from the Mariposa Trail, c. 1865/66

Albumen silver print from wet-collodion glass negative
39.9 x 52.4 cm
Laura T. Magnuson and Maurice D. Galleher endowments, 1986.22

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

AIC, "A Measure of Nature: Landscape Photographs from the Permanent Collection,: May30-September 7, 1998.

Publication History

J. Paul Getty Museum. 1993. “Pioneers of Landscape Photography: Gustave Le Gray, Carleton E. Watkins: photographs from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum.” Frankfurt am Main: Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut; Malibu, California: J. Paul Getty Museum. p. 50.