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[Charles Lewis Camp collection of plates from Eadweard Muybridge's portfolio Animal locomotion].
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[Charles Lewis Camp collection of plates from Eadweard Muybridge's portfolio Animal locomotion]Creator/Contributor:
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904, creator, photographer.Creator/Contributor:
Camp, Charles Lewis, 1893-1975, creator.Creator/Contributor:
University of Pennsylvania, publisher.Abstract:
Collotype plates of motion studies of humans and other animals, photographed by Eadweard Muybridge, from his portfolio Animal
locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements (published in 1887 by the photographer
and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where the studies were conducted). Subjects depicted in plates include
women, horses, deer, dogs, lions, elephants, and birds.
Date:
1887 (issued)Subject:
Animal locomotion -- PhotographsHuman locomotion -- Photographs
Locomotion animale -- Photographies
Locomotion humaine -- Photographies
United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Plates include photographic image and printed title of publication, stamped plate number, and printed copyright statement:
"Copyright, 1887, by Eadweard Muybridge. All rights reserved."
Includes plate nos. 181, 453, 649, 686, 715, 727, 734, 763, 767, 775, 776, 777, 779, 781 and a portion of a print with unknown
plate no.
Transfer from the University of California Museum of Paleontology ; 2023.
Charles Lewis Camp: zoologist and paleontologist; Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as
Chair of the Department of Paleontology and Director of the Museum of Paleontology. His interests also included the history
of the Western U.S. and book collecting.
Charles Camp collection of plates from Eadweard Muybridge's portfolio Animal Locomotion, BANC PIC 2024.005, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotomechanical prints-Pennsylvania-Philadelphia-1887.
Collotypes.
Physical Description:
photoprint
15 prints in 3 folders : mounted collotypes ; prints and mounts 49 x 62 cm
Language:
English