This four-part grid of oval New Series prints is, according to legendary Watkins scholar Peter Palmquist, likely unique. Rarely do these small-format ovals, which were conventionally pasted in travel albums throughout the 1880s, survive with such vivid tones. Smaller prints by Watkins are no lesser of artistic achievements—they offer more nuance to Watkins’ unparalleled vision. Each print is pasted to an album leaf with a typeset title under or above the print edges; while it is likely that each print is signed and titled on the reverse, we have no way of knowing without unmounting. In this particular example, two mirrored views of El Capitan and the Three Brothers are placed alongside one another, while two grand perspectives from Union Point are placed above.