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Watkins #87 - Vernal Fall, Yosemite
Image courtesy of: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles   (Accession Number 85.XM.361.34)
Photographers number:87
Title:Vernal Fall, Yosemite
Inscription:Recto mount: Signed in dark brown ink l.r. below image, and inscribed in pencil, Picoyac? [sic] / Piwyac [sic] - Vernal Fall - 300 ft.__Yo Semite
Date Photographed: 1861
Catalog:Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, cat. no. 239
Notes:CMP notes: Same viewpoint as NS 859. Exhibited at 1868 MI Fair. JPGM 84.XM493.30, inscribed Vernal Fall__300 ft.. CEW # on CSL print

Photographer:Carleton E Watkins   (Nov 11, 1829 — Jun 23, 1916;  Active approx. 1853 — 1896)
Publisher:Carleton Watkins
Format:Mammoth Plate
Medium:Albumen
Image Size:15 13⁄16  x  20 1⁄2  in.  (40.2 x 52.1 cm)  —  Horizontal, Dome Top
Provenance to 1900:National Academy of Design Museum  (source: 1985/JPGM notes)

View this image in gallery:Vernal Fall, Nevada Fall, and Cap of Liberty
Link to image source:http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/55656/carleton-watkins-piwayac-vernal-fall-300-ft-yo-semite-american-1861/
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