Plate Number 636. "Daisy" jumping a hurdle, saddled, preparing for the leap
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 24 × 29 cm (9 7/16 × 11 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
2014.79.603
Art Historical Context
Step into the groundbreaking world of motion photography with *Plate Number 636. "Daisy" jumping a hurdle saddled, preparing for leap* by Eadweard Muy, created in 1887. This collotype print captures a saddled horse named Daisy at the tense moment before clearing a hurdle, part of Muybridge's monumental *Animal Locomotion* series. Produced at the University of Pennsylvania, these images showcase his pioneering use of sequential photography to dissect movement frame by frame. Muybridge, a British-American photographer, transformed visual art in the late 19th century by proving what the eye alon...
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...