River View, Sentinel, 3270 Feet

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Artist: Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916)
Date: 1861
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 52.1 x 41.6; Mount: 60.8 x 53.6
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005
Accession no.: 2005.100.1263

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.

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Carleton E. Watkins
1865–66 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00000339
El Capitan, Yosemite
Carleton E. Watkins
1865–66 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00000526
Section of the Grizzly Giant with Galen Clark, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite
Carleton E. Watkins
1865–66 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00000527
Vernal Fall, Yosemite
Carleton E. Watkins
1865–66, printed ca. 1875 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00000555

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.