Plate Number 279. Baseball, batting

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of sequential motion studies involving a swinging motion with a bat. The image consists of two horizontal rows, each containing multiple frames capturing different stages of an action. The top row features side views, with grid lines in the background. The subject appears to be going through the stages of preparing to swing a bat, executing the swing, and following through. The bottom row provides back views of similar stages.

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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. 279 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.265

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