Plate Number 389. Farmer, scattering seed

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a sequential series of a subject in motion. The image has two rows of photographic frames capturing distinct moments of a walking sequence. In the top row, the subject is shown in profile view moving from left to right, and in the bottom row, the subject is displayed transitioning from front to back. The photographs are monochrome. Some frames contain a grid or measurement scale, possibly for a scientific or analytical purpose related to motion study.

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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 389 / Copyright 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.373

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