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  • A semi-naked woman sits on a chair and puts on a stocking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    • Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.
    Date
    1887
    Reference
    2008552i
    Part of
    Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
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  • World War One: back view of a man seated on a cushion on the ground. Black chalk drawing, c. 1914.

    Date
    1914
    Reference
    24580i
    • Pictures
  • A semi-naked woman sits on a chair and puts on a stocking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    • Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.
    Date
    1887
    Reference
    2008550i
    Part of
    Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • On the science of easy chairs, reprinted from "Nature", Oct. 17, 1878 : On posture and its indications, reprinted from "The Lancet", July 2, 1892 / by T. Lauder Brunton, M.D., D.Sc.Edin., LL.D. (Hon) Aberd., F.R.S., &c., assistant-physician and lecturer on materia medica and therapeutics at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

    • Brunton, T. Lauder (Thomas Lauder), 1844-1916
    Date
    1892
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  • A clothed woman sitting on a chair puts on a shoe then stands up. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    • Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.
    Date
    1887
    Reference
    2008554i
    Part of
    Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A woman, naked above the waist, sitting on the ground with her legs stretched out to her left, rises to a standing position, a folded paper in her right hand. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    • Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.
    Date
    1887
    Reference
    2005367i
    Part of
    Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A naked woman sitting in a chair having convulsions. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    • Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.
    Date
    1887
    Reference
    2010597i
    Part of
    Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A clothed, sitting woman puts on boots then stands up. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    • Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.
    Date
    1887
    Reference
    2008557i
    Part of
    Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A clothed woman places a chair on the ground, sits on it, crosses her legs and fans herself. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    • Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.
    Date
    1887
    Reference
    2005366i
    Part of
    Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Healthy posture and exercises for seated people. Colour lithograph, 2002.

    • Státní zdravotní ústav v Praze.
    Date
    2002
    Reference
    660247i
    • Pictures
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