Plate Number 438. Setting down a bucket and preparing to scrub

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a sequence capturing a person interacting with a bucket. The image consists of multiple black and white frames arranged in a grid, each showing a different stage of movement. The frames depict a figure wearing a long dress and a hat, bending and kneeling near a bucket. The background of each frame is plain and the grid lines are visible. Each row shows a continuation of movement captured in a series of still shots that convey a sense of motion and activity through sequential photography.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

  • Dimensions

    image: 29.8 × 25.5 cm (11 3/4 × 10 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 47.6 × 60.2 cm (18 3/4 × 23 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.79.438

  • 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. 438 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.407

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