![Carleton Watkins, [Pacific Coast View] / [Gibson Beach, Pt. Lobos, Monterey Coast]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/7e1b4d2b-2a5f-44f8-b81c-e26cc90730cc/full/!1400,/0/default.jpg)
[Pacific Coast View] / [Gibson Beach, Pt. Lobos, Monterey Coast]
1880–1883
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
- 38.9 × 53.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-698522
The sandy beach, rocky cliffs, rolling hills, and cypress trees of Monterey County provided a splendid landscape for Carleton Watkins during his excursion to photograph the San Carlos Borromeo mission at Carmel. This view presents Gibson Beach, located at the southernmost edge of Point Lobos, on a sunny afternoon devoid of fog. The clarity of Watkins's image allows every detail of the rocky coast to be deciphered, from the delicate cypress trees lining the distant ridge to the wet sand in the foreground.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- 1880–1883 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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