Plate Number 720. Cat; galloping

Eadweard Muybridge

National Gallery of Art

This is a series of twenty-four black-and-white photographs capturing a cat in motion. The photos are organized into a grid pattern with four rows, each showing a different phase of the cat's stride as its limbs extend and contract. The cat's fur is spotted, and its head faces the right in all the photographs. The background of the photographs appears to be a thin grid, and each has a small number in the bottom left corner. Between the rows of photos are black borders.