[Trees in Calaveras Grove and Views of Yosemite, California]

Carleton E. Watkins

ca. 1878 · Albumen silver prints from glass negatives · Photographs

This exceptionally rare untitled album features seventy-three circular-format views made seventeen years after Watkins first photographed at Mariposa Grove and Yosemite. Half of the photographs are studies of the great sequoia trees in Calaveras Grove, the other half are landscapes of Yosemite. Watkins used a stereo camera with oversize plates then masked the negatives during the printing process.

Artist

Carleton E. Watkins

Date

ca. 1878

Medium

Albumen silver prints from glass negatives

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005