Plate Number 115. Descending an incline with hands clasped in front

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

The image is a sequence of photographs of a woman walking. In the top row, she walks from right to left, and in the bottom row, from left to right. She has short, dark hair and a focused expression. She is unclothed and barefoot, with flexed arms. The background features a grid pattern.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.2 × 42.5 cm (6 3/4 × 16 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 47.8 × 60.4 cm (18 13/16 × 23 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.79.165

  • 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. 115 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.115

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