EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE (1830-1904)

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EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE (1830-1904)

Animal Locomotion

115 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. Credit, title, plate number, copyright date and reproduction limitation printed in the margin. Each approximately 8½ x 12¼in. Accompanied by the original title page. Original maroon leather folio with gilt impressed credit, title and date on the cover(worn), spine broken. (115)

Literature

Cameraworks, p. 10, fig. 12 (hands); Photography, A Short Critical History, pl. 40; A World History of Photography, p. 251, fig. 293.

Lot Essay

This group includes 5 series of hand studies, presumeably those of Thomas Eakins, taken at a farm in Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks. Eakins involvement was arranged through J. Liberty Todd, an art patron and personal friend of Muybridge's. Also included are 92 studies of human locomotion (the majority women) and 18 animal studies (the majority horses).