Plate Number 433. Wringing clothes

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

The image shows a fully nude woman performing a bathing routine. She is depicted from head to toe, bending over to tend to a wooden bucket. Her head is slightly bowed, showing her facial features and hair pulled back smoothly. The woman interacts with the bucket and uses a cloth or towel to wring water from it. The background has vertical slats or bars, indicating an enclosed space, with a plain ground beneath her feet.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

  • Dimensions

    image: 19 × 38.5 cm (7 1/2 × 15 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 48.2 × 61.2 cm (19 × 24 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.79.435

  • 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 433 / Copyright, 1887 by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.403

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