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

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.
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionImage of large outcropping of tall rocks in background. A still river in foreground.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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