Plate Number 197. Man and woman dancing a waltz

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a series of twenty-four black-and-white photographs showing two people in formal attire engaged in a dance. One of the people is wearing a light-colored dress and the other is wearing a dark suit. The sequence of photographs is arranged in four rows of six photos, and combined they seem to capture the progression of the couple’s movements as they move together. The people are shown in different positions in each frame. The background is plain gray, with their shadows moving across it.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

  • Dimensions

    image: 27.5 × 25.65 cm (10 13/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 47.6 × 60.3 cm (18 3/4 × 23 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.79.239

  • 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. 197 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.197

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