Carleton E. Watkins
Alcatraz Island from Black Point, San Francisco
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Carleton E. Watkins
1829 - 1916
Alcatraz Island from Black Point, San Francisco
mammoth-plate albumen print, mounted, framed
image: 14¼ by 19⅛ in. (36.2 by 48.6 cm.)
frame: 23 by 28¼ in. (58.4 by 71.8 cm.)
Executed in 1862-64.
Weston Naef and Christine Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011), cat. no. 320
In their groundbreaking catalogue raisonné Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, Weston Naef and Christine Hult-Lewis locate only two other prints of this image: at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, and the Society of California Pioneers, San Francisco.
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