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Selected Motion Studies

8 collotype plates from Animal Locomotion, An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements, 1872-1885, published under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, 1887. Each with letterpress credit, series title, plate number, copyright and reproduction limitation printed in the margin. Varying sizes from 6 1/8 x 17½ to 8½ x 12 1/8in. (8)

Lot Essay

The plates include: a nude woman carrying a basket on her head, a woman descending steps with a fan, a baby playing on a blanket, a woman with a parasol, a man and baby walking, a nude man throwing a medicine ball, a nude woman crawling and a man carrying two buckets.

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