Plate Number 80. Ascending an incline with a 20-lb. basket on head

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

The image shows a series of photographs of a woman in motion, walking or stepping while holding a basket on her head. Her body is shown entirely in each frame as she progresses from one position to the next. She is balancing the basket with one or both hands at different stages. She has short hair and is not wearing any clothing. The background has a vertically aligned pattern, possibly a corrugated texture or a wooden fence-like structure.

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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. 80 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.80

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