The Father of the Forest - The Horse Back Side. Calaveras Grove

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Artist: Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916)
Date: ca. 1878
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 12.5 x 12.5 cm (4 15/16 x 4 15/16 in.), circular Album page: 24 x 25.1 cm (9 7/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession no.: 2005.100.556 (13)

Bridal Veil, Yosemite
Carleton E. Watkins
1865–66 · Photograph
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00000339
El Capitan, Yosemite
Carleton E. Watkins
1865–66 · Photograph
Public 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
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00000527
Vernal Fall, Yosemite
Carleton E. Watkins
1865–66, printed ca. 1875 · Photograph
Public 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.