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Collections

Eadweard Muybridge
Smith Trotting Bareback1887

On view: Resnick Pavilion
Sepia-toned photographic print arranged in three rows of eight sequential frames showing a pale horse and bare-skinned rider captured mid-stride from the side and rear

Eadweard Muybridge, Smith Trotting Bareback, 1887, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Eadweard Muybridge
England, active United States, 1830-1904
Title
Smith Trotting Bareback
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1887
Medium
Collotype
Dimensions
Image: 7 11/16 × 15 1/16 in. (19.5 × 38.2 cm) Primary support: 18 5/8 × 23 3/4 in. (47.3 × 60.4 cm) Mat: 20 × 26 in. (50.8 × 66.04 cm)
Credit Line
The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin
Accession Number
M.2008.40.1504
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Salvesen, Britt. See the Light: Photography, Perception, Cognition: the Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2013.