Plate Number 758. Cockatoo flying

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a series of images capturing a bird in flight. It shows a grid-like arrangement of multiple sequential photographs, each featuring a bird in different stages of flight. The bird is seen against a background segmented by a grid, possibly to analyze its movement. The series captures the motion of the bird's wings and body position as it flies, providing a detailed visualization of flight mechanics. Each frame isolates a distinct phase of the bird's movement, collectively conveying a sense of motion through static images.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.32 × 36.83 cm (8 × 14 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 48.26 × 60.96 cm (19 × 24 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.79.683

  • Series Title

    Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Eadweard Muybridge, Philadelphia, PA; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1887; acquired by NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

printed, lower center underneath image in black ink: ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE. 758 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.666

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