Plate Number 142. Descending stairs and turning, dress caught

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of several sequential frames capturing a figure descending a set of stairs. The series consists of two rows of images in grayscale, each capturing a different moment in time as the figure moves down the stairs holding an object that appears to be a fan. The images include grids or lines in the background. Each image is slightly different, capturing subtle changes in movement and position as the figure descends.

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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. 142 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.142

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