Plate Number 611. "Katydid" trotting, harnessed to sulky

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a horse pulling a cart in sequential movement. The image is a series of black and white photographs capturing a horse in motion as it pulls a two-wheeled cart. Each frame shows a slightly different phase of the horse's gait. The grid-like background suggests a scientific study of motion commonly associated with early photographic motion studies. The images are presented in a grid format, showing two different perspectives of the same action — a side view and a rear view.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.3 × 40.9 cm (7 3/16 × 16 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 48.26 × 60.96 cm (19 × 24 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.79.578

  • 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. 611 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.557

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