Glass plate positive, Muybridge Animal Locomotion series, plate 130

A rectangular glass plate sits in a grey metal mount over an orange backing, its surface showing a grid of pale rectangular photographic frames with faint marks. A colour calibration strip runs along the right edge, and the setting is a flat, pale-grey surface.

Artist

Muybridge

Date

Medium

glass (overall material) silver gel (overall material)

Source

Smithsonian (National Museum of American History)

Size

4000 × 2660 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History