Plate Number 669. Ox; walking

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a series of sixteen sequential frames showing a cow walking. Each frame captures a different stage in the cow's walking cycle, arranged in four rows with four frames in each row. The cow is depicted in profile view, and the background is a plain, grid-lined backdrop. The style of photography is similar to the work of Eadweard Muybridge, known for capturing animal locomotion through photography.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    New Century Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 22.8 × 33.6 cm (9 × 13 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 46.1 × 60.6 cm (18 1/8 × 23 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.150.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London); NGA purchase, 2019.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

printed, lower center underneath image in black ink: ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE. 669 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, center stamped in black ink: MUSEUM OF / EDINBURGH / SCIENCE AND ART

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