Eadweard Muybridge Art
American, 1830-1904
Inventor, photographer, entrepreneur, and artist - Eadweard Muybridge was responsible for creating some of the most important and groundbreaking photographic studies of motion. Often referred to as “the father of the motion picture” for his innovative use of the camera, Muybridge stands out - both for his groundbreaking artistic expression, and for his detailed scientific study of movement. Muybridge is best known for expanding and experimenting with the camera’s ability to capture and freeze motion, as he developed a set of multiple cameras with synchronized shutters.
Born in Kingston-upon-Thames, England, in 1830, Muybridge immigrated to the United States at age 25 and settled in San Francisco. He quickly became one of the leading landscape photographers of the west. In 1872, former California governor and railroad entrepreneur Leland Stanford commissioned him to photograph his horse Occident trotting at full speed, to determine whether all four of a horse's hooves left the ground at the same time. The resulting photographs were the first successful examples of stop-action photography that the world had ever seen.
In the summer of 1883, the University of Pennsylvania sponsored Muybridge to undertake the largest investigation yet of stop-action photographs, including women, men, children, horses, and a large variety of animals at the Philadelphia Zoo. Over the next three years, over 20,000 individual photographs were taken, resulting in the publication in 1887 of Human and Animal Locomotion, featuring 781 different collotype plates. Only 37 complete sets were produced, and additional plates were sold individually and by subscription.
With this work, Muybridge became a significant precursor to 20th Century art, including painting, photography, and motion pictures. Artists as diverse as Sol Lewitt, Edgar Degas, Francis Bacon, and Phillip Glass were all influenced by his work.
Major holdings of Muybridge collotypes are in the collections of prominent museums and libraries around the world. In the United States, these include the Library of Congress, Yale University, the Philadelphia Free Public Library, the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, and in New York – the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, and the New York Public Library. In Europe, major Muybridge collections can be found at the British Library, the Cinémathèque Française, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Musées de Strasbourg, and the Kingston Museum in Muybridge’s home town.(Biography provided by Laurence Miller Gallery)
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Artist: Eadweard Muybridge
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 647.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 647.
Jumping a hurdle; bareback; rider, 105, nude; gray mare Pandora
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 615.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 615.
Canter; bareback; dark-gray Belgian horse Hansel
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887
Image size 9 x 12.75 inches
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 592.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 592.
Racking (pacing); saddle; brown horse Pronto
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887
Image size 7.25 x 16.5 inches
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 597.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 597.
Trotting; bareback; dark-gray Belgian horse Hansel
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887
Image size 7 5/8 x 13 inches
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 646.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 646.
Jumping a hurdle; saddle; rider, 105, nude; gray mare Pandora
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 582.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 173.
Walking; saddle; rider, 43, nude; light-gray horse Smith
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 631.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 631.
Gallop; saddle; thoroughbred bay horse Bouquet
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887
Image size 7 x 16 inches
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 620.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 620.
Canter; saddle; thoroughbred bay mare Annie G.
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887
Image size 7 3/8 x 16 inches
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 173.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 173.
Ascending stairs and jumping off.
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 (image size 6.875 x 14.125 inches)
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 715.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion.
Plate 715. Dogs; three, tugging at a towel, Ike, Maggie, etc.
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887
Image size 6.5 x 17.25 inches.
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 35.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion.
Plate 35. Walking, carrying child on right arm.
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887
Image size 8.25 x 13.5 inches.
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 56.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion.
Plate 56. Walking, turning and stooping to lift train.
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 (image size 6.875 x 17 inches)
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 319.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion.
Plate 319. Heaving 75-lb. rock.
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 (image size 5.25 x 15.125 inches)
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 349. Fencing.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 349. Fencing.
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 (image size 7 x 16.5 inches)
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 211.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 211.
Stooping and lifting handkerchief; parasol in left hand.
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 (image size 7.75 x 13.75 inch...
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 465.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 465.
Two models, child 70 N, bringing bouquet to 12.
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 (image size 7.63 x 14.88 inches)
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 365.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 365.
Head spring, a flying pigeon interfering.
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 (image size 8 x 14.25 inches)
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 140.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 140.
Descending stairs, looking around and waving fan.
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 (image size 11.75 x 9.75 inches)
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 60.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 60.
Running at a half-mile gait (shoes).
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 (image size 9.375 x 12.625 inches)
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 733.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 733.
Elephant; walking.
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 (image size 8.125 x 14.875 inches)
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 44.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 44.
Man taking off hat.
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 (image size 10.5 x 9.75 inches)
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 481.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 461.
"Child, lifting a doll, turning, and walking off."
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 644.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 644.
Jumping a hurdle; saddle; clearing and landing; knocking over hurdle; rider, 105, gray mare Pandora.
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 207.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 207.
"Stooping and lifting train."
14 x 20 inch original collotype print from 1887 (image size 7.38 X 15.38 inches...
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"Animal Locomotion, Plate 531", Collotype by Eadward Muybridge, 1887
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eadweard Muybridge, British/American (1830 - 1904)
Title: Animal Locomotion, plate 531
Year: 1887
Medium: Collotype
Image Size: 8.5 x 13 inches
Frame Size: 20 x 24 inches
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1880s Naturalistic Eadweard Muybridge Art
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Black and White
"Animal Locomotion, Plate 402", Collotype by Eadward Muybridge, 1887
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eadweard Muybridge, British/American (1830 - 1904)
Title: Animal Locomotion. plate 402
Year: 1887
Medium: Collotype
Image Size: 7.25 x 16 inches
Size: 19 in. x 24 in. (48.26 ...
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Untitled (Man with Cricket Bat)
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Collotype print. Animal Locomotion, Eadweard Muybridge, Copyright 1887, Plate number 291 and all right reserved all printed on the back of the print.
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19th Century Eadweard Muybridge Art
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 246.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion.
Plate 246. Placing chair, sitting and flirting a fan.
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887
Image size 7.5 x 15.375 inches.
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Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 49.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 49.
"Walking and turning around rapidly, a satchel in one hand, cane in the other."
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Phyrne L., leaping (Running Horse and Rider)
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Running Horse and Rider
(Plates 171-172 from Attitudes of Animals in Motion)
c. 1878-9/1881
Stamped, “Copyright 1891 Edw. Muybridge,” in black ink, l.r.
Inscribed “171-2” in pencil...
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Animal Locomotion: 671 (Ox Walking), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Animal Locomotion: 671 (Ox Walking), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
Inscribed with Muybridge's Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh's ...
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Late 19th Century Eadweard Muybridge Art
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Animal Locomotion: Plate 749 (Baboon Climbing), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Animal Locomotion: Plate 749 (Baboon Climbing), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
Inscribed with Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date
Stamped with Museum of Ed...
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Animal Locomotion: Plate 730 (Tiger Walking), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Animal Locomotion: Plate 730 (Tiger Walking), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
Inscribed with Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date, stamped with Museum of Edi...
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Animal Locomotion: Plate 322 (Man Lifting Dumbbells), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Animal Locomotion: Plate 322 (Man Lifting Dumbbells), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
Inscribed with Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date, stamped with Museu...
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Animal Locomotion: Plate 92 (Nude Woman Ascending Staircase), 1887 - Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Animal Locomotion: Plate 92 (Nude Woman Ascending Staircase), 1887 - Muybridge
Inscribed with Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date, stamped with Museum...
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Animal Locomotion: Plate 89 (Nude Man Ascending Staircase), 1887 - Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Animal Locomotion: Plate 89 (Nude Man Ascending Staircase), 1887 - Muybridge
Inscribed with Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date, stamped with Museum o...
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