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Plate Number 340. Boxing, open hand (shoes)

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names

Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a motion sequence capturing a physical interaction between two figures. The image is composed of twelve individual frames arranged in a grid. Each frame depicts a dynamic pose sequence suggesting movement between the two figures. The background features a grid pattern. The figures are positioned in various stances, interacting with each other. The use of a monochromatic palette emphasizes the contours and shadowing, highlighting the progression of frames.

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Artwork overview

Medium

collotype
Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and Patrons' Permanent Fund
Dimensions

image: 23.18 x 33.02 cm (9 1/8 x 13 in.)
sheet: 47.78 x 60.48 cm (18 13/16 x 23 13/16 in.)
Accession Number

2006.133.104

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon; purchase and gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Dan and Mary Solomon

Inscriptions

printed, across bottom underneath image: Animal Locomotion. Plate. 340 / Copyright, 1887, by Eadweard Muybridge. All rights reserved.; on verso, by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: EM0180

Wikidata ID

Q64147040

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