Plate Number 681. Virginia deer, buck, walking, startled to a gallop

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph showing a sequence of images of a deer in motion. The image is divided into two rows, each containing smaller, black-and-white photographs. The top row shows the deer transitioning from a standing, grazing position to a full sprint in side view. The background includes a fence. The bottom row captures the deer moving away from the viewer, starting from a standing position and progressing to a sprint with dust being kicked up. The sequence is reminiscent of Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies.

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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. 681 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.605


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