Plate Number 636. "Daisy" jumping a hurdle, saddled, preparing for the leap

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a sequence showing a horse in motion. The image features a series of still frames arranged in a grid format, capturing a horse performing a jump over a hurdle. Each frame documents a progressive stage of the horse's movement, illustrating the fluid motion of running and leaping. The background is undistracted and neutral. The sequence captures the elegance and power of the horse through its stride and airborne motion over the obstacle. The monochromatic tones lend a timeless quality to the image.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

  • Dimensions

    image: 24 × 29 cm (9 7/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 47.63 × 60.33 cm (18 3/4 × 23 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.79.603

  • 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. 636 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.582

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