Plate Number 21. Walking, both elbows bent

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a series of sequential frames showing a subject in different stages of motion. The top row depicts a lateral walking motion, while the bottom row shows the subject walking towards the camera from a rear view. The images are arranged in a grid formation on a background grid. Each frame captures slight variations in the subject's movement.

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Provenance

Eadweard Muybridge, Philadelphia, PA; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1887; acquired by NGA, 2014.

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Inscriptions

printed, lower center underneath image in black ink: ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE. 21 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.21


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