Plate Number 87. Ascending an incline with a bucket of water in each hand 1887

"Plate Number 87. Ascending an incline with a bucket of water in each hand" is a photographic study by Eadweard Muybridge, created in 1887. The image is a series of 15 sequential photographs capturing the motion of a nude woman as she ascends an incline while carrying buckets of water in each hand. The series exemplifies Muybridge's groundbreaking work in photographic motion studies, which revolutionized the understanding of human movement and provided crucial insights for the development of cinema. This work is a significant example of the "chronophotography" genre.