Plate Number 331. Boxing, stop for cross-buttocks
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 20.3 × 37.25 cm (8 × 14 11/16 in.) sheet: 47.9 × 60.35 cm (18 7/8 × 23 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.356
Art Historical Context
Step into the groundbreaking world of motion photography with *Plate Number 331. Boxing, stop for cross-buttocks by Eadweard Muybridge, created in 1887. This collotype print, part of his monumental *Animal Locomotion*, captures two boxers frozen mid-action during a precise moment—a "stop for cross-bocks," highlighting the dynamic twist and tension of the sport. Measuring 20.3 × 37.25 cm in its image area, it exemplifies Muybridge's pioneering use of sequential photography to dissect human movement, blending art and science. Muybridge, a British-born innovator, revolutionized visual culture af...
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...