Plate Number 89. Ascending stairs

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

The image is a sequence of photographs capturing a man moving down a set of steps. The man is shown in various stages of stepping down in side profile and from the back. He has a shaved head with hair on the sides and a mustache visible in the side profile shots. The man's physique is lean and muscular. In each photograph, he is unclothed, and there are no visible accessories or objects in his hands. The background consists of a grid pattern in the side profile images, while the back view images display a more abstract pattern with lighter tones and some blurred elements.

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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. 89 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.89


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