Relight
Ansel Adams
Gates of the Valley, Yosemite
- Image
- 4½ × 6⅝in
- Sheet
- 5 × 7⅛in
- Material
- Gelatin silver print
- Verso
- Stamped: “From Virginia and Ansel Adams, operating Best’s Studio, Inc., Yosemite National Park, California.” Titled in pencil in an unknown hand: “View of park at tunnel entrance, El Capitan at left, Bridalveil Falls at right.”
These images may contain artifacts from the scanning process. The framed view is generated from a photograph of the matted print.
This ultra-glossy — possibly ferrotyped — silver gelatinThe clear binder that suspends the light-sensitive silver, forming the print's image layer. print is in overall good condition. The defects noted below are visible only in raking lightLight cast from a low, glancing angle across the surface, used to reveal texture and shallow defects invisible head-on. unless stated.
Surface
- Minute pin-sized and linear impressions throughout the image.
- Several pin-sized impressions in the lower portion of the image that break the emulsionThe light-sensitive image layer of the print — the gelatin coating that holds the silver and carries the photograph..
- An impressionA shallow indentation pressed into the surface, often from handling or contact, without removing material. of a pen point, drawn in a distinctive shape and reversed, in the upper-right quadrant.
- A light vertical linear creaseA line where the paper has been folded or bent, which may or may not break the image layer. on the right third of the image.
- Linear impressions and handling creases along the right edge of the print, visible only on close inspection.
Condition is reported as an opinion, not a statement of fact, and may not note every defect. It describes the artwork as observed at the time of imaging.
Provenance is compiled from documents and owner accounts and may be incomplete.