![Carleton Watkins, The Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Pt. Mariposa Trail / [General View of the Valley - from Inspiration Point]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/61165980-0fcc-472b-8034-aa53cbc4fa08/full/!1400,/0/default.jpg)
The Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Pt. Mariposa Trail / [General View of the Valley - from Inspiration Point]
negative 1865–1866
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
- 39.7 × 52.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-222115
This sweeping view of the Yosemite Valley in winter was made from Inspiration Point on the Mariposa Trail. Yosemite's highest peak, El Capitan, rises at the left, a granite buttress 3,604 feet (1,098 meters) from the valley floor. At center right, almost lost in the photograph's dizzying detail, Bridalveil Fall streams down the mountainside, 620 feet (189 meters) of flowing white mist. Barely visible, Half Dome's crest forms an arc in the snowy center distance. The narrow foreground strip reveals that Carleton Watkins's camera was mere feet from the edge of Inspiration Point, giving the viewer a solid sense of being there, literally on the edge.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- negative 1865–1866 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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