Plate Number 610. "Katydid" trotting, harnessed to sulky

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a series of sequential images depicting a horse pulling a cart in motion. The images show the horse's trotting gait from different angles, illustrating various leg positions as the horse moves. The top row offers a side view while the bottom row provides a front view. The frames are numbered to show the progression of movement systematically. The horse is set against a gridded background, suggesting a scientific analysis of its gait.

Media Options

This object’s media is free and in the public domain. Read our full Open Access policy for images.
Not on view See artworks now on view

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

  • Dimensions

    image: 18 × 42.5 cm (7 1/16 × 16 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 47.63 × 60.33 cm (18 3/4 × 23 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.79.577

  • Series Title

    Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

printed, lower center underneath image in black ink: ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE. 610 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.556

You may be interested in

Loading Results