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Eadweard Muybridge Animals Locomotion Collotypes

Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1887As popular as Eadweard Muybridge motion studies are in the contemporary artistic dialogue, there can be no doubt that the most famous of his works are the series of studies that he made, at the behest of Leland Stanford, of the true motion of a horse in full gallop.  After he figured out how to further approximate accurate renderings of motion in animals, Muybridge began obsessively trying to record how all animals, including humans, moved. From this obsession, there emerged a curious and fascinating collection of all types of animals in a myriad of movements resulting in the production of collotype prints for the Animal Locomotion  portfoilo in 1887.

A collotype is a a kind of photo-lithograph in which glass replaces stone as the printing surface. Each collotype measures approximately 19 x 23 1/2 inches. These prints are original pages from the portfolio sets published by the University of Pennsylvania in 1887. All plate numbers and titles refer to Muybridge's Complete Human and Animal Locomotion, three edition set, Dover Publications, 1979. Please inquire as to price and availability.

 All artworks from the series Animal Locomotion, 1887. Collotype prints approximately 20 x 24"
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Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1887

Animal Locomotion, Plate 267
(Turning and changing position
while on the ground.)
Stamped on recto

 

 

 

  Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1987

Animal Locomotion, Plate 290
(Cricket, overarm bowling.)
Stamped on recto

 

Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1887

Animal Locomotion, Plate 310
 (Putting a shot.)
Stamped on recto


Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1887

Animal Locomotion, Plate 342
 (Boxing, open hand.)
Stamped on recto

 

 

 

Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1887

Animal Locomotion, Plate 607
("Lizzie M." trotting, harnessed to Sulky.)
Stamped on recto

 

 

  Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1887

Animal Locomotion, Plate 666
 ("Zoo" walking, saddled; a girl riding.)
Stamped on recto

 

 

Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1887

Animal Locomotion, Plate 672
(Ox trotting)
Stamped on recto

 

 

 

Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1887

Animal Locomotion, Plate 679
(Goat galloping.)
Stamped recto

 


Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1887

Animal Locomotion, Plate 687
(Fallow deer, buck and
group of does, galloping.)
Stamped on recto

 

 

 

 

Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1887

Animal Locomotion, Plate 689
(Fallow deer, buck and
group of does, galloping.)
Stamped on recto

 

 

 

 Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1887 

Animal Locomotion, Plate 696
(Eland trotting.)
Stamped on recto

 


Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1887

Animal Locomotion, Plate 702
(Gnu bucking and galloping.)
Stamped on recto


Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1887

Animal Locomotion, Plate 705
("Dread" trotting.)
Stamped on recto

 

 

 

 


Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1887

Animal Locomotion, Plate 721
(Lion walking.)
Stamped on recto

 

Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1887 

Animal Locomotion, Plate 729
(Tigress walking.)
Stamped on recto

 

 

Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1887

Animal Locomotion, Plate 734
(Two elephants walking.)
Stamped on recto

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

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