Plate Number 521. A: Walking. B: Ascending a step. C: Throwing the disk. D: Using a shovel. E, F: Using a pick
1887
Eadweard Muybridge
Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904
Artwork overview
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Medium
collotype
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 28.6 × 25.7 cm (11 1/4 × 10 1/8 in.)
sheet: 48.4 × 61.2 cm (19 1/16 × 24 1/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2014.79.505
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Eadweard Muybridge, Philadelphia, PA; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1887; acquired by NGA, 2014.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 10 – July 18, 2010
2016
Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2016 - 2017, unnumbered catalogue.
Inscriptions
printed, lower center underneath image in black ink: ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE. 521 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.477
Wikidata ID
Q64147050