Plate Number 720. Cat; galloping

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a series of twenty-four black-and-white photographs capturing a cat in motion. The photos are organized into a grid pattern with four rows, each showing a different phase of the cat's stride as its limbs extend and contract. The cat's fur is spotted, and its head faces the right in all the photographs. The background of the photographs appears to be a thin grid, and each has a small number in the bottom left corner. Between the rows of photos are black borders.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    William A. Clark Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 19 × 39.5 cm (7 1/2 × 15 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 46.1 × 60.9 cm (18 1/8 × 24 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.150.11

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. 720 / 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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