‘Mr. Muybridge…at the Royal Society’
Date
1889
Sitter
Eadweard Muybridge (1830, British) , Inventor
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Dimensions
height (print): 404mm
width (print): 286mm
width (print): 286mm
Subject
Description
Portrait of Eadweard Muybridge, an exhibitor at the Royal Society’s conversazione, or soirée, at Burlington House, London, on the evening of 8 May 1889. Muybridge is shown standing in formal evening dress, leaning against a rostrum with his left elbow. He holds a lecturing pointer stick in his right hand. Behind, a projected lantern slide illustration of a photograph of a horse and jockey in motion.
Full page cover illustration from the Illustrated London News, 25 May 1889. Captioned below: ‘MR. MUYBRIDGE SHOWING HIS INSTANTANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANIMAL MOTION AT THE ROYAL SOCIETY.’ The print is signed lower left: ‘T. WALTER WILSON’. Lower right: R. TAYLOR’
Muybridge lectured at 10 o’clock during the evening conversazione. The presentation was billed as: ‘Projections by the electric lantern of automatic electro-photographs, exposed at regular intervals of time, illustrating the consecutive phases of bipedal locomotion, as synchronously viewed from two or more points of sight, exhibited by Eadweard Muybridge’.
Eadweard James Muybridge [formerly Edward James Muggeridge] (1830-1904), British developer of motion photography.
Full page cover illustration from the Illustrated London News, 25 May 1889. Captioned below: ‘MR. MUYBRIDGE SHOWING HIS INSTANTANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANIMAL MOTION AT THE ROYAL SOCIETY.’ The print is signed lower left: ‘T. WALTER WILSON’. Lower right: R. TAYLOR’
Muybridge lectured at 10 o’clock during the evening conversazione. The presentation was billed as: ‘Projections by the electric lantern of automatic electro-photographs, exposed at regular intervals of time, illustrating the consecutive phases of bipedal locomotion, as synchronously viewed from two or more points of sight, exhibited by Eadweard Muybridge’.
Eadweard James Muybridge [formerly Edward James Muggeridge] (1830-1904), British developer of motion photography.
Object history
Purchased by the Royal Society.
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