Plate Number 750. Sloth walking suspended on a horizontal pole

Eadweard Muybridge

National Gallery of Art

This is a photograph of a sloth moving along a horizontal branch in a sequence. The image consists of twelve frames arranged in a grid, capturing the gradual movements of the sloth as it hangs upside down from a branch. The sloth appears to be in motion, shifting its position across the series of frames. The photographs are in black and white, and each frame shows a slightly different posture of the sloth as it progresses. The background is simple and unobtrusive.