Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00007037First View of the Yosemite Valley from the Mariposa Trail
Inscriptions
Unmarked recto; verso unchecked
Exhibition history
Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, "A History of Photography from Chicago Collection," April 24–June 6, 1982. Tokyo, Japan, Seibu Museum, "Art of Photography," March 3–April 1, 1990. Art Institute of Chicago, "A Measure of Nature: Landscape Photographs from the Permanent Collection. May 30–September 7, 1998. (Sylvia Wolf) Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 10 Permanent Collection Rotation, May–October, 2012.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Carleton E. Watkins / American, 1829-1916
- Date
- 1865/66
- Medium
- Albumen print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 39.9 × 52.4 cm (15 3/4 × 20 11/16 in.); Mount: 47.4 × 61 cm (18 11/16 × 24 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- albumen silver print
- Style
- 19th century
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Photography and Media
- Credit line
- Laura T. Magnuson and Maurice D. Galleher Endowments
- Accession no.
- 1986.22
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