Plate Number 106. Turning to ascend stairs with a bucket of water in each hand

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

The image shows a series of full-body photographs of a nude woman walking. She is holding a wooden bucket in one hand as she is captured walking next to a wooden structure. Another wooden bucket is visible in some frames, and the ground appears to be made of wooden planks.

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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. 106 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.106

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