Plate Number 501. Miscellaneous,—stooping, kneeling, etc.

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

The image features a series of black and white photographs showing a woman in various stages of a bathing motion sequence. She is holding a water jug and a towel, demonstrating washing or pouring water over herself. The woman's hair is tied back, and her facial expression is neutral as she moves through different postures. The photographs are laid out in two rows and show her standing, bending, and kneeling. The woman is nude and positioned on a wooden platform with a wire grid background behind her.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    New Century Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.8 × 41 cm (7 13/16 × 16 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 47.8 × 60.8 cm (18 13/16 × 23 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.131.8

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

printed, lower center underneath image in black ink: ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE. 501 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: abstract FN; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: 725LM792

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