Plate Number 497. Miscellaneous phases of the toilet

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

The image consists of a series of black-and-white photographs arranged in three rows. They capture a woman in various stages of undressing, shown from head to toe in different positions as she removes layers of clothing. The woman's hair is styled in a bun, and her facial features are not clearly discernible due to the image quality. She starts in a long, patterned Victorian-style dress and progresses to wearing a corset and then a slip. Furniture like wooden chairs is visible around her, and the background is plain with vertical lines, possibly suggesting a studio setting.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.5 × 38.1 cm (8 1/16 × 15 in.)
    sheet: 47.63 × 60.33 cm (18 3/4 × 23 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.79.486

  • 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. 497 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.456

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