Plate Number 446. Filling a pitcher on the ground from a water jar
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 21.3 × 36.5 cm (8 3/8 × 14 3/8 in.) sheet: 48.5 × 61.1 cm (19 1/8 × 24 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.443
Art Historical Context
Step into the groundbreaking world of motion capture with *Plate Number 446. Filling a pitcher the ground from a water* by Eadweard Muy, created in 1887. This collotype print, measuring 21.3 × 36.5 cm, a sequence of a nude figure gracefully bending to fill a pitcher from a large water jar on the ground Muybridge, a pioneering photographer, revolutionized visual arts through his meticulous studies of human and animal movement. Part of the monumental *Animal Locomotion*—comprising 781 plates produced that same year—this image exemplifies Muybridge's chronophotographic technique. Using multiple ...
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...