Plate Number 750. Sloth walking suspended on a horizontal pole

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a sloth moving along a horizontal branch in a sequence. The image consists of twelve frames arranged in a grid, capturing the gradual movements of the sloth as it hangs upside down from a branch. The sloth appears to be in motion, shifting its position across the series of frames. The photographs are in black and white, and each frame shows a slightly different posture of the sloth as it progresses. The background is simple and unobtrusive.

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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. 750 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.658

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