Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Instant
Animal Locomotion, Plate 628
Eadweard Muybridge, collotype, 1887 · collotype
What it is
Plate 628 walks a horse through a full sequence at its slowest gait, the frames spaced to show a stride most people never bother to watch.
Why it matters
Muybridge studied the walk with the same rigor he gave the gallop, because the slow gaits held their own unresolved questions about footfall order.
What to notice
The evenly spaced footfalls in the walk frames, a rhythm the gallop plates never show.
Even the plainest gait had a secret worth photographing.
Provenance
- Maker
- Eadweard Muybridge, collotype, 1887
- Era
- The Victorian Turf (1837–1901)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- collotype
- Made
- 1887
- Source
- University of Pennsylvania / DPLA
Print master
The largest formats are printed from a master enlarged 3× from the surviving 1008×800 scan by AI enhancement (Claid smart-enhance), prepared for the considered detail of a print viewed at distance. The source record above is unchanged — the enhancement serves the wall, not the archive.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the work’s own year of publication. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-20.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 11x17" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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