“GREAT FALLS OF YELLOWSTONE 397 FEET”

“GREAT FALLS OF YELLOWSTONE 397 FEET”
U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories plate XXVIII (1871 Heyden Geological Survey)

William Henry JACKSON (1843-1942)

Medium : Albertype (“E.Bierstadt’s Albertype”)
Image : 8-1/2 x 6-3/4
Overall size : 13-3/4 x 11-1/8”

EXTREMELY RARE : one of few surviving albertype images made from the glass plate negatives that William Henry Jackson carried by mule over the spectacular rugged lands that would become America’s first National Park.

Edward Bierstadt (brother of artist Albert Bierstadt) was commissioned to produce images from Jackson’s glass negatives by the newly invented German process, to which he had purchased the rights, a refinement of the collotype, a screen photomechanical process allowing high quality prints from continuous tone photographic negatives.

Bierstadt planned a series of 100 prints, but before completing the series, fire destroyed the studio, along with a substantial quantity of the Yellowstone albertypes, and some of Jackson’s original negatives..

Condition : good vivid image , scattered faint stains to unprinted white paper and very faint at top margin of sky
# 02174 …...............................….................................SOLD