Plate Number 454. Taking a 12-lb. basket from head and placing it on the ground

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a series of black and white photographs capturing a person handling a basket filled with straw. The images are arranged in a grid and show the individual lifting, carrying, and lowering the basket in a sequence. The background of the images features a grid pattern. The person is wearing a dress and a headscarf or cap. The composition appears to be methodical and designed for analytical observation.

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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. 454 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.415


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