View on the Columbia, Cascades

View on the Columbia, Cascades

Carleton E. Watkins

Details

Dimensions
40.0 x 52.4 cm (15 3/4 x 20 5/8 in.)
Department
Photographs
Holding institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
License
CC0-1.0
Credit
Warner Communications Inc. Purchase Fund and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1979

Art Genome Taxonomy

7 tags

Subject Matter

  • The catalog lists Rivers and Landscapes, and the image visibly presents a wooded waterway with distant mountainous terrain.

  • Waterscapes Both · 98%

    A broad river or lake-like waterway occupies the central and lower-right portions of the image, consistent with the cataloged subject Rivers.

Styles and Movements

  • Landscape Photography Metadata · 98%

    The catalog lists Landscapes as a subject and identifies the work as a photograph.

Visual Qualities

  • Black and White Visual · 95%

    The photograph is rendered in a restricted sepia monochrome range, without visible color differentiation.

Medium and Techniques

  • Photography Metadata · 99%

    The catalog classifies the work as a photograph and identifies its medium as an albumen silver print from a glass negative.

  • The waterway, wooded banks, atmospheric haze, and distant mountain forms create pronounced spatial recession from foreground to background.

Time Periods

Source & rights

Carleton E. Watkins. View on the Columbia, Cascades. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.