Plate Number 469. Child running

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a sequence showing the movement of a figure running. The image is divided into a series of frames capturing progressive moments in the motion of the figure. The background consists of a grid. Each frame captures a static moment, detailing changes in the position and posture. The figure's movement is fluid, with hair and limbs depicted in various stages of running.

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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 469 / Copyright 1887, by Eadweard Muybridge. All rights reserved.; on verso, stamped upper left: The W.R. Miles / Muybridge Collection / Item no. 231; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: EMV-0040

Wikidata ID

Q64147043

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