3-075-919 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Plate 170 from Animal Locomotion, 1887. 'Animal Locomotion: An Electro-photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements' is a series of scientific photographs by Eadweard Muybridge made in 1884 and 1885 at the University of Pennsylvania, to study motion in animals (including humans). The chronophotographic series comprised 781 collotype plates, each containing up to 36 pictures of the different phases of a specific motion of one subject (over 20,000 images in total).