Plate Number 209. Stooping and lifting a handkerchief

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a series of black and white images arranged in a grid layout. The images capture the motion of a figure in a dress holding an object. The figure moves incrementally across the frames. The figure is wearing a long flowing dress. The images depict various stages of motion. The background has horizontal lines. Each frame is numbered.

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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. 209 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.209

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