Sand Dunes, Carson Desert, Nevada
1867
- Medium
- albumen print from wet collodion negative
- Dimensions
- 19.7 × 27 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-195707
This noontime scene conveys a desolate place discovered by a lonely explorer. The artist chose a vantage point and framing that blocked the horizon and showed a single wagon—the former Civil War ambulance that he converted into a portable darkroom—and only two sets of footprints. However, over the previous 25 years, more than 165,000 people had passed near here on their way to California.
Provenance
Severance Fund, 2002.45
Registry history
- 1867 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — photographs
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