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Perico and Flamingo from the Island of Nao

Perico and Flamingo from the Island of Nao

Eadweard J. Muybridge
American, born England. 1830–1904
1875
A quiet albumen silver print showing two rounded islands across a calm bay, made by Eadweard Muybridge to record the landscape and its relationships of scale and composition on the Island of Nao.
The image feels hushed and expansive: a broad, glassy sweep of water leads the eye to two dome‑like islands while tangled branches and two small figures in the lower right provide an intimate foreground that fixes scale.
This photograph sits between 19th‑century travel documentation and experimental composition, revealing the technical and observational rigor that would inform Muybridge’s later, groundbreaking work on motion and photographic analysis.
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
5 3/8 × 9 3/8" (13.6 × 23.8 cm)
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Credit
Transferred from The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Accession
182.1964.19
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