Plate Number 587. "Nellie Rose" walking, harnessed to sulky

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a series of 24 sequential images showing a horse pulling a carriage in motion. The photographs display the different stages of the horse's movement while pulling a sulky. The frames capture the horse's change in posture and the wheels' rotation. The images are arranged in four rows, each with six photographs showing various moments of the horse's stride cycle. The photos demonstrate the mechanics of equine locomotion and the connection between the horse's movement and the carriage's motion.

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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. 587 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.533

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