Plate Number 733. Elephant walking

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This series of sequential images shows an elephant walking. The photographs depict the elephant's movement in a steady manner across multiple frames. Each row displays the elephant's gait at different stages, capturing its full motion cycle. The images reveal the elephant's anatomy, including its large ears, trunk, and wrinkled skin, against a neutral background. The elephant moves from one side of the frame to the other, presented in a scientific or documentary style.

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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. 733 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.641

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