Cathedral Rocks, Valley of the Yosemite, 2,600 Feet High

Artist Eadweard Muybridge (American, born England, 1830 - 1904)

Date1872

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 16 1/2 × 21 1/8 inches (41.91 × 53.66 cm)
Mount: 19 1/2 × 24 1/4 inches (49.53 × 61.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2005.37.43

InscribedOn mount recto, lower right corner, in pencilt: "CATHEDRAL ROCKS, VALLEY OF THE YOSEMITE, 2600 FT HIGH, No. 7;" Bradley & Rulofson credit.

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DescriptionImage of large outcropping of tall rocks in background. A still river in foreground.Provenance

Provenance

Purchased from Photographs 1502, Christie's, New York, April 26, 2005, lot 10 by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2005;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

Published References

Mary V. Jessup Hood and Robert Bartlett Haas, "Eadweard Muybridge's Yosemite Valley Photographs, 1867-1872," California Historical Society Quarterly 42 (March 1963): 5-26; Mary Jessup Hood, "Charles L. Weed, Yosemite's First Photographer," Yosemite Nature Notes 38:6 (June 1959): 76-87; Bradley & Rulofson, Catalogue of Photographic Views Illustrating Yosemite, Mammoth Trees, Geyser Springs, and other remarkable and interesting scenery of the Far West, by Muybridge (San Francisco: Francis & Valentine, 1873).

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