Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Instant
Animal Locomotion, Plate 632
Eadweard Muybridge, collotype, 1887 · collotype
What it is
Plate 632 sets a ridden horse through a full sequence, the rider's posture shifting frame by frame with the animal beneath.
Why it matters
Muybridge rarely stopped at the horse alone — adding a rider let the plates settle a second argument, how a body in the saddle actually moves with the gait rather than how artists had assumed it did.
What to notice
The rider's seat rising and falling out of sync with the horse's back, two motions in one frame.
The camera caught the rider still learning the horse's arithmetic.
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 1010×800 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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