Plate Number 42. Walking and pouring water from a pitcher
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 21.65 × 33.3 cm (8 1/2 × 13 1/8 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
2014.79.94
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge's *Plate Number 42. and pouring water from a* (1887) is a captivating entry from his groundbreaking *Animal Locomotion* series a monumental publication of 781 collotype plates that dissected human and animal movement through sequential photography. Capturing a nude figure mid-stride while gracefully pouring water from a pitcher this image exemplifies Muybridge's obsession with freezing everyday actions into analyzable moments. Produced as part of the Corcoran Collection at the National Gallery of Art the 21.65 × 33.3 cm image on a larger 48.4 × 61.3 cm sheet invites viewers ...
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...