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Mission San Juan Capistrano

Artist:
Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916)
Date:
1880–81
Medium:
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions:
11.3 x 17.8 cm. (4 7/16 x 7 in.)
Classification:
Photographs
Credit Line:
Robert O. Dougan Collection, Gift of Warner Communications Inc., 1981
Accession Number:
1981.1229.52.2
Not on view
Inscription: Printed on the mount recto, BE: "B. 4,621. MISSION SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, ESTABLISHED NOV. 1ST, 1776.// WATKINS' NEW BOUDOIR SERIES YO SEMITE AND PACIFIC COAST, 427 Montgomery Street, San Francisco." inscribed in pencil on the mount, verso BRC: "I.106"; label affixed to mount, verso C: "LONDON - PERTH - DUBLIN - SAN MARINO// ROBERT ORMES DOUGAN."
Robert O. Dougan

Rule, Amy, ed. Carleton E. Watkins: Selected Texts and Bibliography. Oxford: Clio Press, 1993. p. 20.

Timelines
The United States and Canada, 1800-1900 A.D.

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