Plate Number 137. Descending stairs and turning around
1887
Eadweard Muybridge
Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904
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Artwork overview
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Medium
collotype
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 19.4 × 37 cm (7 5/8 × 14 9/16 in.)
sheet: 47.8 × 60.4 cm (18 13/16 × 23 3/4 in.) -
Accession
2014.79.186
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Eadweard Muybridge, Philadelphia, PA; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1887; acquired by NGA, 2014.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
printed, lower center underneath image in black ink: ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE. 137 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.137