Plate Number 585. "Katydid" walking, harnessed to sulky

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a series of motion study images of a horse pulling a cart. The grid contains 24 black and white frames showing the horse and cart from both side and rear views. The images depict the sequential movement of the horse's legs and the cart's wheels as they move from left to right. The background features a gridded board that may provide scale and measure motion, typical of early motion photography studies of animal locomotion.

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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. 585 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.531

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