Plate Number 141. Descending stairs, turning and flirting a fan

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

The image features a series of black and white frames showing a woman in full-body view. She is depicted in various poses while walking on a path or stepping down from heights. She wears a floor-length dress with long sleeves and styled-up hair. In some frames, she holds an open fan in one hand. The backgrounds include horizontal lines resembling a wall and another frame shows a structure with possible garden plants.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

  • Dimensions

    image: 29.5 × 24.9 cm (11 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 47.4 × 60.15 cm (18 11/16 × 23 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.79.190

  • 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. 141 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.141

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