Plate Number 342. Boxing, open hand

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a sequential depiction of an athletic activity. The photograph shows a series of frames with two rows, each capturing moments in a motion sequence. The images present two figures in motion, engaged in a form of sparring or wrestling. The background has a plain, grid-like pattern. The series captures different stages of the interaction between the figures, highlighting their dynamic movements and positions.

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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. 342 / Copyright 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.327

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