Plate Number 471. Child crawling on hands and knees

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a series of black and white photographs depicting a person in motion on all fours. The images are arranged in a grid format and capture the subject from different angles while crawling. The sequence focuses on studying movement and documenting the subject's positions as they move across a marked background. The photographs show various perspectives, including side view, frontal view, and back view, to provide a detailed observation of the movement dynamics.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.7 × 40.3 cm (7 3/8 × 15 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 47.7 × 60.2 cm (18 3/4 × 23 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.79.463

  • 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. 471 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.432

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