Plate Number 457. Stepping on a chair and reaching up

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a grid of black-and-white sequential photographs. In the top row, the sequence shows a figure interacting with a chair, moving it and standing on it. The bottom row captures a similar sequence with a different figure and chair. The series provides a detailed study of the actions as the figures approach, manipulate, climb, and stand on the chairs.

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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. 457 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.418

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