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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.