Plate Number 169. Jumping over boy's back (leapfrog), 1887

Not on View

series Title

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

Medium

collotype

Dimensions

image: 24.2 × 30.9 cm (9 1/2 × 12 3/16 in.)

sheet: 47.5 × 60.3 cm (18 11/16 × 23 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

Accession Number

2014.79.215

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. 169 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.169

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

Exhibition History

2019: The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.