Plate Number 167. Jumping over a boy's back (leapfrog)

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph showing a sequence of a leapfrog activity. It consists of sixteen small frames arranged in a 4x4 grid, capturing moments in the progression of a leapfrog motion. The sequence is in black and white, illustrating stages of movement from approaching the bent figure, hands placed on the back, leaping over, and landing on the other side. The background features a lined surface.

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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. 167 / Copyright 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.167


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