A thick-trunked tree towers over us in an old-growth forest in this photograph, which is printed in shades of gray on cream white. From close to the ground, we look up at the central tree, which has thick but stubby branches extending like bristles on scrub brush from its central trunk. Just to the left is an upright but dead, broken trunk. Its hollow interior faces us. The canopy of the central tree is outlined against the blank sky, and other evergreens and thinner-trunked trees reach into the sky around the central tree.

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Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove

Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829 - 1916)

1861

Medium: albumen silver print
Classification: Photograph
Dimensions: overall: 52.5 x 39.2 cm (20 11/16 x 15 7/16 in.)
Culture: American
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CPH
Credit line: Gift of Mary and David Robinson
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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