Plate Number 67. Running

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a sequence capturing motion. This series of images shows a person depicted in multiple stages of movement, running through space. The top row presents profile views in a stop-motion sequence, capturing fluid leg and arm positions against a grid marked background. The bottom row offers frontal views, showing progress through space with a clear path marked between two side panels.

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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. 67 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.67

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