Plate Number 113. Descending an incline
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 16.2 × 42.6 cm (6 3/8 × 16 3/4 in.) sheet: 47.55 × 60.2 cm (18 3/4 × 23 11/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.163
Rights
Public Domain
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge'sPlate Number 113.ending an incline* (1887) is a captivating entry from his groundbreaking *Animal Locomotion* series, monumental publication of 781 collotype plates that dissected human and animal movement through sequential photography. Commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania and purchased that same year for what became the Corcoran at the National Gallery of Art this work captures a figure mid-descent, freezing a fluid motion into 12 precise instants. Muybridge, a pioneering photographer born in Britain but famed in America, transformed visual art and science by pr...
About the Artist
Eadweard Muybridge · 1830–1904
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was an English-American photographer who revolutionized the understanding of motion through his pioneering chronophotographic studies. Born Edward James Muggeridge in Kingston upon Thames, England, he emigrated to America and became famous first for his dramatic landscape photographs of Yosemite Valley, then for his groundbreaking motion studies that proved horses li...