Plate Number 523. A: Striking a blow. B, E: Throwing a disk. C, F: Heaving a 75-lb. stone. D: Throwing a ball, 1887

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series Title

Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements

Medium

collotype

Dimensions

image: 32.9 × 24.9 cm (12 15/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

sheet: 48.26 × 60.96 cm (19 × 24 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

Accession Number

2015.19.4125

Artists / Makers

Eadweard Muybridge (artist) American, born England, 1830 - 1904

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Muybridge, Eadweard