Object number1976.37
Woman pouring a bucket of water over another woman, Plate 408
Portfolio/Seriesfrom the series Animal Locomotion: An Electro Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements, Volume IV
Date1887
Artist
Eadweard Muybridge
(American, b. England 1830 - 1904)
CultureAmerican
MediumCollotype
DimensionsImage: 13 5/8 x 19 9/16 in. (34.6 x 49.7 cm)
Sheet: 19 1/8 x 24 in. (48.5 x 61 cm)
Sheet: 19 1/8 x 24 in. (48.5 x 61 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Betsy Mudge Wilson, class of 1956, Memorial Fund and Timothy Cole Fund
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
SignedOn recto, printed lower center margin: by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE
InscribedOn recto, printed lower center margin: ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE. 408 / Copyright, 1887, [artist's name]. All rights reserved.
Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryPhotography as Data: Augmentation, Extraction, Objectification, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 9 - September 15, 2024Description27 black and white progressive frames of a woman standing up on a chair and pouring a bucket of water overtop another woman. Both women are naked and the woman with water poured on her leaps out from under the water. The frames are arranged in a 3 x 9 format with each row showing a different angle of the progression.
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Eadweard Muybridge
printed 1887
Culture: American
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William Bailey
1975
Culture: American
