Plate Number 749. Baboon climbing a pole
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 20.8 × 34.6 cm (8 3/16 × 13 5/8 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
2014.79.674
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge *Plate Number 749.oon Climbing a Pole* (1887) captures a pivotal moment in the of photography and scientific visualization. Part of Muybridge's monumental *Animal Locomotion*, this collotype print showcases a baboon mid-climb, frozen in sequential motion across the frame. Muybridge, a British-born innovator, revolutionized how we understand movement after his famous 1870s experiments proving that all four hooves of a galloping horse leave the ground—a feat that shattered artistic conventions and laid groundwork for motion pictures. Printed in collotype, a precise photomecha...
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...