Plate Number 486. A: Lawn tennis. B: Ascending a step. C: Descending a step. D: Ascending a ladder

Eadweard Muybridge

National Gallery of Art

The image consists of 24 frames showing a male figure in motion. The man is captured in various poses such as playing tennis, walking, ascending stairs, and climbing a ladder. He appears sideways in most frames with short dark hair. The man is nude, displaying his body as he performs different actions. He holds a tennis racket in the first row of images. The background is a plain, dark surface with props like stairs and a ladder. Each pose is part of a progressive sequence showing fluid motion.