Plate Number 263. Getting into bed

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

The images depict a nude female figure in different poses as she interacts with a bed. The sequence shows her standing, walking towards the bed, lifting and arranging a sheet, climbing onto the bed, and eventually lying down. She is partially draped with the sheet in some frames and has her hair styled in an updo. The setting includes a simple bed with a metal frame and a fabric sheet, set against a backdrop of a plain, horizontal-striped surface.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.4 × 38.1 cm (7 1/4 × 15 in.)
    sheet: 48.4 × 61.2 cm (19 1/16 × 24 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.79.291

  • 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 263 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.250

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