Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00007671Mirror View, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal.
Inscriptions
Printed recto, on card, along left side: "Watkins' Pacific Coast. / 26 Montgomery St., opposite Lick House entrance, San Francisco." printed recto, on card, along right side, in black ink: "Photographic Views of California, Oregon, and the Pacific Coast generally, embracing Yo Semite, Big Trees, Geysers, Mount Shasta, Mning, City etc., etc. Views made to order in any part of the State or Coast." typed, lower center, in black ink: "Mirror View, 1121. / Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal."
Exhibition history
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography,” May 7–July 30, 1989; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990. Art Institute of Chicago, "Crossing the Line: Photography Reconsidered," January 29-June 4, 2000 (David Travis) Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 10 Permanent Collection Rotation, May 10–November 17, 2013.
Publications
Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis and Colin Westerbeck. 1989. “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography.” Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art/The Art Institute of Chicago. p. 121, cat. 104.
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
- 1861/76
- Medium
- Albumen print, stereo
- Dimensions
- Each image: 7.9 × 7.9 cm (3 1/8 × 3 1/8 in.); Card: 8.7 × 17.6 cm (3 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- stereograph (albumen)
- Style
- 19th century
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Photography and Media
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Kunstadter Family Foundation
- Accession no.
- 1978.1178
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