Plate Number 630. "Pandora" galloping, saddled
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 13.8 × 45.2 cm (5 7/16 × 17 13/16 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
2014.79.597
Art Historical Context
Step into the pioneering world of motion photography with *Plate Number 630. "Pandora" gall, saddled* by Eadweard Muybridge, created in 1887. This collotype print captures a saddled horse named Pandora in full gallop, part of Muybridge's monumental *Animal Locomotion* series Commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania, the series comprised over 780 plates documenting animals and humans in motion using a battery of up to 24 cameras triggered sequentially by the subject's movement. Muybridge's work settled the age-old debate about whether all four horse hooves leave the ground during a gallop...
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...