Plate Number 716. Cat; walking; change to galloping

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge
Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904
The artwork is a series of sequential black-and-white photographic frames arranged horizontally in four rows, depicting a cat in motion. Each frame captures a different phase of the cat's movement, transitioning from walking to galloping. The cat has a striped fur pattern and is positioned against a grid-lined background. The images are numbered sequentially, with the cat's posture and leg positions changing in each frame. The tail remains mostly elevated.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    William A. Clark Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.1 × 40.1 cm (7 15/16 × 15 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 46.1 × 60.9 cm (18 1/8 × 24 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.150.9

  • Series Title

    Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements

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. 716 / 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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