Plate Number 765. Vulture flying

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This image displays a sequential grid of photographs showing a bird in flight. It features a series of frame-by-frame shots capturing the bird's wing movements as it flies. The grid consists of four horizontal rows and six vertical columns, with each cell depicting a different pose of the bird in flight. The images are in black and white, emphasizing the bird's movement against a grid background. The repetition of frames highlights the mechanics and grace of avian flight.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

  • Dimensions

    image: 27.31 × 27.31 cm (10 3/4 × 10 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 47.63 × 60.33 cm (18 3/4 × 23 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.79.689

  • 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. 765 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.673

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