Plate Number 538. Double amputation of thighs, boy. A: Moving forward. B: Getting on chair. C: Getting down from chair

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a sequence showing movement across a chair. The image consists of multiple frames arranged in a grid-like format, each capturing a progressive movement over a chair. The background appears simple and nondescript, focusing the attention on the action taking place in each frame. The progression shows subtle shifts in posture and balance as if the subject is performing an exercise or a task involving the chair. Each frame is labeled at the bottom with numbers, indicating steps in the sequence.

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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. 538 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.490


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