Plate Number 674. Sow; walking

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a pig walking. The image consists of a series of black-and-white frames showing the motion of the pig walking along a fenced area. The top two rows display the pig from a side view, with its limbs in different positions as it walks. The bottom row shows a rear view, focusing on the movement of its body and legs. A grid-like fence in the background provides structure, and each frame is numbered.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 15.4 × 46.2 cm (6 1/16 × 18 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 47.7 × 60.5 cm (18 3/4 × 23 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.140.6

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco); NGA purchase, 2019.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

printed, lower center underneath image in black ink: ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE. 674 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom right partially erased: EMu 0801.21

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