Plate Number 180. Stepping on and over a chair

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a sequence of movement study. The image features two rows of grid-like background photographs, capturing stages of a subject climbing onto and stepping down from a stool. Each photograph in the sequence shows a moment in time of this motion. The frames are arranged systematically to give a clear view of this continuous motion, with the top series showing the movement from the side and the bottom series from behind.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

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Exhibition History

2016

  • Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2016 - 2017, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

printed, lower center underneath image in black ink: ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE. 180 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.180

Wikidata ID

Q64147051

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