Plate Number 686. Fallow deer, buck and doe, galloping
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 21.3 × 35.6 cm (8 3/8 × 14 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
2014.79.630
Art Historical Context
Behold *Plate Number 686. Fallow Deer Buck and Doe, Gall* by Eadweard Muy, a captivating collotype print from 1887 now housed in the National Gallery of's Corcoran Collection. This image captures two fallow deer in mid-stride, their elegant forms frozen in sequential motion—a hallmark of Muybridge's groundbreaking *Animal Locomotion* series which comprised over 780 plates documenting the movement of animals and humans. Muybridge, British-American photographer, revolutionized visual arts in the late 19th century by employing banks of up to 24 cameras triggered by tripwires. His work settled ag...
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...