Plate Number 128. Descending stairs with hands clasped

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a sequential series of images capturing motion. The image is a collection of individual photographs arranged in two rows, showing an unclothed figure in various stages of walking down steps. Each frame presents a slightly different position. The background is a grid. The lighting highlights the contours of the figure’s form, and the grid provides a standardized backdrop for this examination of human locomotion.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.15 × 38.1 cm (7 9/16 × 15 in.)
    sheet: 47.8 × 60.3 cm (18 13/16 × 23 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.79.177

  • 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. 128 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.128

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