Plate Number 181. Stepping over a fence

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

The image shows a series of photographs of a person in motion. The person is stepping over an object, possibly a pole or bar, in various stages of movement. The individual is a woman with her hair tied back and wearing a translucent dress. The photographs capture different angles of the woman as she carefully steps over the obstacle. There are no visible jewelry items on the woman. The background is a lined surface or wall that serves as a neutral backdrop for the subject's motion.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

  • Dimensions

    image: 20 × 36.9 cm (7 7/8 × 14 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 47.8 × 60.3 cm (18 13/16 × 23 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.79.225

  • Series Title

    Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements

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. 181 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.181

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