Plate Number 730. Tigress walking and turning around

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a tiger walking. The image shows a series of black and white photos capturing the movement of the tiger as it walks forward through a narrow passage surrounded by walls. The photographs are organized in two horizontal rows with six frames in each row, showing the progressive motion of the tiger from left to right in the top row and continuing from left to right in the bottom row. Each frame provides a different perspective of the tiger's gait.

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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. 730 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.638

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