EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE

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EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE

Various Motion Studies

20 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 9 x 12 3/4 to 6 5/8 x 17½in. (20)

Lot Essay

The plates depict a child watering a plant, a girl with a doll walking, a woman in a hat with two girls in sunbonnets, a half-dressed woman kissing a child, a nude woman spanking a child, a nude woman riding sidesaddle atop an Appaloosa, a bull, a goat, a reindeer running, a dog and a cat leaping.