Glass plate positives on orange mount, Muybridge Animal Locomotion series

A photograph of a grid of twelve rectangular glass plates arranged in three rows of four, set within an orange-red mat board framed in pale gray. The plates show faint dark spots and cloudy silvery surfaces, with cracks and tape visible at the edges, and a color calibration strip sits at the left.

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