Plate Number 582. "Smith" walking, saddled; rider nude

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a set of sequential still frames featuring a horse in motion. The frames show the horse and its rider from the side in the top row and from the rear in the bottom row. Each frame displays slight variations in the horse's movement as it walks or trots. The plain background emphasizes the horse's motion. The detailed photographs reflect the biomechanics of the horse's movement, resembling early motion photography.

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Provenance

Eadweard Muybridge, Philadelphia, PA; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1887; acquired by NGA, 2014.

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Inscriptions

printed, lower center underneath image in black ink: ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE. 582 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.528

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