Plate Number 45. Two women walking, meeting and partly turning

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a series of sequential images depicting a figure in Victorian-style clothing walking. The frames are laid out in a grid format, capturing the motion step-by-step. The backdrop is plain, emphasizing the figure's shifting positions. The setup suggests an exploration of capturing motion in a pre-cinematic experiment.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

  • Dimensions

    image: 22 × 34.2 cm (8 11/16 × 13 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 48.2 × 61.2 cm (19 × 24 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.79.97

  • Series Title

    Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

printed, lower center underneath image in black ink: ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE. 45 / Copyright 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.45

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