Plate Number 758. Cockatoo flying

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a bird in flight captured in multiple stages. The image is divided into a grid of 24 smaller frames, each showing a consecutive moment from the sequence of a bird flapping its wings as it flies. The background of each frame is lined with a grid pattern. The bird's movements are methodically documented from different angles and stages of its flight path, showcasing the mechanics of its wing positions and body orientation as it glides through the air.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

printed, across bottom underneath image: Animal Locomotion. Plate. 758 / Copyright, 1887, by Eadweard Muybridge. All rights reserved.; on verso, by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: 3000

Wikidata ID

Q64147041

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