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Animal Locomotion — the Gallop Grid
Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion (Plate 626), 1887 · collotype plate
What it is
The stride laid out as a grid — motion made legible, one frame at a time.
Why it matters
The plates every animator, physiologist, and painter has cribbed since; the study wall’s perfect tenant.
What to notice
The numbered columns — time, given coordinates.
Understanding is slow motion.
Provenance
- Maker
- Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion (Plate 626), 1887
- Era
- The Victorian Turf (1837–1901)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- collotype plate
- Made
- 1887
- Horse
- Annie G.
- Source
- USC Digital Library, Special Collections (rbm-QP301M8-1887-626) · rbm-QP301M8-1887-626
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 40x60" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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