Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Instant
Animal Locomotion, Plate 630
Eadweard Muybridge, collotype, 1887 · collotype
What it is
A horse run through its paces across a strip of exposures on Plate 630, motion divided into a row of fixed instants.
Why it matters
Muybridge's grids gave physiologists and animators alike a reference no painter's memory could match, the horse pinned down like a specimen for study.
What to notice
The identical background grid lines behind the horse in every frame, holding scale constant.
To study motion, first you have to stop it.
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 1011×800 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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