Plate Number 626. "Annie G." galloping

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a galloping horse captured in a series of sixteen small, black-and-white images arranged in four horizontal rows. Each photo shows the horse in mid-stride, illustrating the successive movements of its gallop from left to right. The background is plain, emphasizing the nuanced shifts in the position of the horse's legs and body in each frame.

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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. 626 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.572

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