Plate Number 523. A: Striking a blow. B, E: Throwing a disk. C, F: Heaving a 75-lb. stone. D: Throwing a ball
1887
Eadweard Muybridge
Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904
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Artwork overview
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Medium
collotype
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 32.9 × 24.9 cm (12 15/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
sheet: 48.26 × 60.96 cm (19 × 24 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.4125
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. 523 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.479