Plate Number 614. "Flode Holden" trotting, harnessed to sulky, breaking into a gallop
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 19.2 × 36.7 cm (7 9/16 × 14 7/16 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
2014.79.581
Art Historical Context
Step into the groundbreaking world of motion photography withadweard Muybridge *Plate Number 614. "Flode Holden"tting, harnessed toky, breaking into aop* (1887). Muybridge, a British-American photographer renowned for his pioneering stop-motion studies, captured this dynamic sequence as part of his monumental *Animal Locomotion*. Here, the horse "Fl Holden" transitions fluidly from a trot to a gallop while pulling a lightweight sulky cart, showcasing the raw power and grace of equine movement. Printed as a collotype—a precise photomechanical process that allowed for detailed, large-scale repr...
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...