Plate Number 201. Taking a 12-lb. basket from head and putting it on the ground

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a sequence showing a person carrying a basket. The images depict stages of motion in a grid-like layout, capturing lifting, carrying, and setting down the basket from various angles. The backdrop includes a brick wall and wire-mesh fence, adding texture to the scene. The grid presentation highlights the motion study.

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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 201 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.201; by unknown hand, lower left center in black pencil: 201

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