Plate Number 477. Child stooping, lifting a goblet and drinking

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a series of sixteen black and white frames showing a small figure interacting with a glass and liquid. The background features a fence or grid-like structure and a paved ground. The frames depict the figure's movements in progression, from approaching the glass to picking it up, squatting, and drinking from it. Each frame captures a moment of the figure's actions, creating a narrative through photographic motion study.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.8 × 35.3 cm (8 3/16 × 13 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 47.8 × 60.3 cm (18 13/16 × 23 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.79.469

  • 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. 477 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.438

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