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Plate Number 669. Ox; walking

Eadweard Muybridge

National Gallery of Art

This is a series of sixteen sequential frames showing a cow walking. Each frame captures a different stage in the cow's walking cycle, arranged in four rows with four frames in each row. The cow is depicted in profile view, and the background is a plain, grid-lined backdrop. The style of photography is similar to the work of Eadweard Muybridge, known for capturing animal locomotion through photography.

Artwork Details

Date
1887
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
5804 × 3917 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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