Plate Number 398. Lifting a bucket of water to empty it

Eadweard Muybridge

National Gallery of Art

This is a photograph showing a series of motion studies involving a person with a bucket. The image displays two rows with sequential individual frames capturing the movement of the subject. The setting seems to be an interior environment with a vertically lined backdrop. Each frame shows a variation in posture as the subject engages in a task with the bucket, illustrating balance, muscle dynamics, and motion in a structured manner.