Plate Number 738. Bactrian camel walking
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 24.13 × 29.85 cm (9 1/2 × 11 3/4 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
2014.79.663
Art Historical Context
Step into the groundbreaking world of motion photography with *Plate Number 738. Bactrian Walking* by Eadweard Muybridge, created in 1887. This collotype print, part of Muybridge's monumental *Animal Locomotion* series captures the rare Bactrian camel—a shaggy, two-humped desert dweller from Central Asia—in mid-stride. Measuring nearly 10 by 12 inches on a larger 19 by 24-inch sheet, it exemplifies the precision of 19th-century scientific artistry, now housed in the National Gallery of Art's Corcoran Collection. Muybridge, a British-born innovator, revolutionized visual culture by using a bat...
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...