Plate Number 563. "Dusel" hauling, broken log chain
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 21 × 35.2 cm (8 1/4 × 13 7/8 in.) sheet: 47.63 × 60.33 cm (18 3/4 × 23 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.532
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge *Plate Number 563.Dusel" Hauling, Broken Log Chain* (1887) captures a dramatic moment in 19th-century logging from his groundbreaking *Animal Locomotion* series. Produced at the University of Pennsylvania, this collotype print—plate 563 of 781—documents the powerful strain of "Dusel," likely an ox, as it hauls a massive log despite a snapped chain. Muybridge, a pioneer in motion photography, revolutionized visual science after his famous 1870s horse studies, using banks of cameras to freeze sequential action, proving how animals truly move. The collotype medium, a photomech...
About the Artist
Eadweard Muybridge · 1830–1904
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was an English-American photographer who revolutionized the understanding of motion through his pioneering chronophotographic studies. Born Edward James Muggeridge in Kingston upon Thames, England, he emigrated to America and became famous first for his dramatic landscape photographs of Yosemite Valley, then for his groundbreaking motion studies that proved horses li...