Plate Number 478. Child sprinkling water over some flowers

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a series of images showing a child watering plants. The grid arrangement captures the motion over several steps, as the child interacts with a watering can and potted plants. The background features a wire or lattice fence. The sequence documents the child's continuous motion along a garden area, pouring water from the watering can over the plants.

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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. 478 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.439

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