id: 162310 accession number: 2002.43 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2002.43 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:47.054000 Yosemite Valley from Mariposa Trail, c. 1865. Charles Leander Weed (American, 1824–1903). Mammoth albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 39.7 x 51.7 cm (15 5/8 x 20 3/8 in.); mounted: 55.6 x 71 cm (21 7/8 x 27 15/16 in.); matted: 71.1 x 81.3 cm (28 x 32 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2002.43 title: Yosemite Valley from Mariposa Trail title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1865 creation date earliest: 1860 creation date latest: 1870 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 19th century technique: mammoth albumen print from wet collodion negative department: Photography collection: Photography type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Charles Leander Weed (American, 1824–1903) - artist Charles Leander Weed American, 1824-1903 Born in New York state, Charles Leander Weed moved to Sacramento, where he became a camera operator in the daguerreotype portrait studio of George J. Watson in 1854. Four years later he was named the junior partner of Robert Vance, the leading daguerreotypist in California during the 1850s. Weed is recognized for his early views of Yosemite. In June 1859 he was the first known photographer to venture into the valley, taken there by the publisher, developer, and entrepreneur James Hutchings, who printed woodcuts after Weed's wet plate photographs later that year in his Hutchings' California Magazine. Like other photographers, Weed switched from daguerreotypes to the wet collodion technique soon after its local introduction at the 1855 California State Fair. His views of early mining and settlement in California have been much admired. In 1860 Weed left his partnership to make the first of several visits to Asia, briefly establishing a studio in Hong Kong before returning to California the following year. He photographed Yosemite in 1864, then traveled to produce views of Hawaii in 1865 and of the Far East in 1867. That same year he showed his photographs at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, winning an international award for landscape photography. Weed made another trip to Yosemite in 1872, probably with Eadweard Muybridge, and later worked as a photoengraver. T.W.F. --- measurements: Image: 39.7 x 51.7 cm (15 5/8 x 20 3/8 in.); Mounted: 55.6 x 71 cm (21 7/8 x 27 15/16 in.); Matted: 71.1 x 81.3 cm (28 x 32 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Collection of American Photography opening date: 2003-04-26T00:00:00 Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Collection of American Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 26-September 10, 2003). title: Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-06-24T00:00:00 Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007); Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA (October 3, 2009-January 3, 2010). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2002.43/2002.43_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2002.43/2002.43_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2002.43/2002.43_full.tif