Plate Number 430. Toilet; taking off clothes, 1887

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series Title

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

Medium

collotype

Dimensions

image: 17.3 × 41.1 cm (6 13/16 × 16 3/16 in.)

sheet: 47.8 × 60.4 cm (18 13/16 × 23 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

New Century Fund

Accession Number

2019.131.6

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

printed, lower center underneath image in black ink: ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE. 430 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: Living/Dress/Undr. FN; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: Eadweard MUYBRIDGE / English (1830 - 1904); bottom left: - "Taking off clothing" / (Plate # 430 of 781 from the series / "Animal Locomotion"); bottom center: 1884-86 / photographs / collotype; bottom center: paper?; bottom center: Edition: 37 complete sets, plus approx. 415 Portfolios / of 100, or more, random plates of subscriber's choice; bottom right: Published in 1887 under the auspices of / University of Penn. at Philadelphia / Printed by N.Y. Photogravure Co. of Brooklyn; bottom right: 345P1079

Provenance

(Equinox Gallery, Vancouver); NGA purchase (through Laurence Miller Gallery, New York), 2019.

Associated Names

Laurence Miller Gallery