Plate Number 734. Two elephants walking

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a sequence showing two elephants walking. The image consists of twelve individual frames arranged in a sequence that depicts the movement of two elephants alongside a human figure guiding them. Each frame captures the elephants taking steps. The elephants are side by side, and the sequence shows them progressing forward across a textured ground, likely outdoors. The photograph is in black and white.

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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. 734 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.642

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