Plate Number 292. Cricket, batting and back cut
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 15 × 44.5 cm (5 7/8 × 17 1/2 in.) sheet: 48.4 × 61.3 cm (19 1/16 × 24 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.319
Art Historical Context
Step into the groundbreaking world of motion captured in stillness with *Plate Number 292. Cricket, batting and back cut* by Eadweard Muybridge, created in 1887. This collotype print, measuring 15 × 44.5 cm in its image area, freezes a sequence of a cricketer mid-action—poised to bat and executing a precise back cut. Part of Muybridge's pioneering *Animal Locomotion* series, it showcases human movement with scientific precision, transforming a dynamic sport into a series of frozen instants. Muybridge, a British-American photographer, revolutionized visual arts in the late 19th century through...
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...