Outline View of the Half Dome, 4967 Feet

Provenance

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Artist: Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916)
Date: 1861
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 20 1/16 × 16 5/16 in. (51 × 41.5 cm) Mount: 21 1/4 × 26 3/8 in. (54 × 67 cm)
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.: 2005.100.1265

Bridal Veil, Yosemite
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.