Plate Number 474. Child walking up stairs, kneeling and reaching for vase

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a series of sequential images depicting movement. The image consists of two rows of smaller photographs that showcase a progression of steps on stairs. Each frame captures a distinct stage of the subject ascending and interacting with a set of steps, illustrating the sequence of motion in detail. The background features a grid pattern. The photographs provide details of action captured in time.

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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 474 / Copyright 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.435


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