Plate Number 121. Descending an incline with a bucket of water in each hand

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

The image shows sequential photographs of a woman walking. The frames display the woman from the side, front, and back as she carries a wooden bucket, steps onto a narrow plank, and moves. She has her hair tied back and is nude. The background includes a textured wall and another barrel.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.75 × 35.9 cm (8 3/16 × 14 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 47.85 × 60.4 cm (18 13/16 × 23 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.79.170

  • 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. 121 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.121

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