Plate Number 649. A: "Hornet" rocking. B: "Eagle" rolling a barrel

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a series of sequential images featuring a horse on a rocking platform and a horse on a wheel. The images document the movement dynamics of the horse in two different physical setups. The top row shows the horse on a platform with curved rockers, progressing from a still position to rocking motion as the horse's legs push against the surface. The bottom row displays the horse against a round, wheel-like object, demonstrating how it interacts with and moves around the wheel. The series appears to study the mechanics of movement in animals.

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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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printed, lower center underneath image in black ink: ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE. 649 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.595


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