Plate Number 741. Bactrian camel. A: Walking. B: Racking

Eadweard Muybridge, 1887

This is a photograph of a camel walking, captured in a series of frames. The image consists of two rows of sequential photographs showing the camel from behind. The frames display the progression of the camel's gait,… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Eadweard Muybridge ¹
Date: 1887 ¹
Medium: collotype ¹
Original: 4,550 × 2,029 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

Object record, National Gallery of Art

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neutral temperaturemid contrastmid toneslandscape

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Close in palette, light and contrast · computed

This is a photograph of a sequential motion study featuring lions. The series consists of twelve black-and-white frames, each capturing two lions walking side by side in a lateral sequence.

In contrast

Similar light, opposite temperature · computed

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