Eadweard Muybridge

collotype, comprising 24 Sequential Images of a Hand Drawing a Circle, numbered sequentially in the images, on a two-toned leaf, with letterpress title, plate number '532,' copyright, and date and a 'Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art Library' stamp in the margin, framed, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse, 1887

Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, 1994

New York, Guggenheim Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, June - September 2004, and 4 other international venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Show of Hands: Photographs and Sculpture from the Buhl Collection, January - March 2008

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 23 and 235 (this collotype)

This collotype is in generally excellent condition. The tip of the upper left margin corner is abraded. The leaf is lightly soiled from handling and age-appropriately darkened at the periphery. The upper left corner of the leaf is torn and there is a 1/2-by-one-1/2-inch loss. There are also small tears along the left and upper edges of the leaf. The leaf's corners are worn and creased.
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