Plate Number 672. Ox; trotting

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a sequence showing the movement of an animal walking. The image includes sixteen individual black-and-white shots arranged in four rows, capturing the stages of the animal's gait. Each frame displays the animal in a slightly different position as it progresses through a walking cycle, providing a detailed study of its motion. The consistent backdrop and grid lines emphasize the changes in the animal's leg positions and body posture from one frame to the next.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 22.1 × 32.3 cm (8 11/16 × 12 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 47.7 × 60.6 cm (18 3/4 × 23 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.140.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco); NGA purchase, 2019.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

printed, lower center underneath image in black ink: ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE. 672 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: 10-1.2 / EMu 0801.23

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