Plate Number 775. Adjutant, flying run

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a series of black-and-white images arranged in a grid formation. The images depict a bird in various stages of flapping its wings. The background shows a consistent, slightly blurred vertical line pattern. The focus is on the bird's movement as it spreads its wings and moves across the ground.

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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. 775 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.683

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