Plate Number 293. Cricket, batting and back cut

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph showing sequential motion of a person holding a cricket bat. The image includes two rows of frames depicting stop-motion movements with the bat. The background features a grid pattern, and the ground appears natural. Cricket stumps are visible in the setting. The focus of the photograph is on capturing body movements through frame-by-frame methodology typical of early motion study photography.

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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. 293 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.279

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