Mr. Muybridge Showing His Instantaneous Photographs of Animal Motion at the Royal Society, Illustrated London News

May 25, 1889

J. Walter Wilson

Associated Names
J. Walter Wilson

Artist, British

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving on newsprint

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

  • Dimensions

    image: 30.5 × 23.5 cm (12 × 9 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 40.01 × 28.89 cm (15 3/4 × 11 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.117.287

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Catherine Dring, U.K.; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2008; acquired by NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2010

  • Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change, Exploration Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 10 – July 18, 2010

Bibliography

2010

  • Eadweard Muybridge. Exh. cat., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Tate, London; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. London, 2010: 216, fig. 107.

Inscriptions

on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in graphite: 2012.002.002

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