Plate Number 335. Boxing with gloves
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 23.6 × 31.55 cm (9 5/16 × 12 7/16 in.) sheet: 48.1 × 61.2 cm (18 15/16 × 24 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.360
Art Historical Context
Step into the dynamic world of motion captured in *Plate Number 335. Boxing with Gloves by Eadweard Muybridge, created in 1887 as part of his monumental *Animal Locomotion*. This collotype print, measuring about 9½ × 12½ inches on a larger 19 × 24-inch sheet, freezes a sequence of two boxers in padded gloves mid-action—punching, dodging, and circling one another. Muybridge, a British-born photographer who settled in America, revolutionized visual perception by using banks of up to 24 cameras triggered by electromagnetic shutters, dissecting everyday movements into precise, split-second frames....
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...