Plate 629 holds a horse mid-stride across a run of exposures, isolating the instant no spectator at the rail could ever fix with the naked eye. Muybridge's whole project rested on this claim — that the camera could see what the human eye compressed into a blur, and prove it plate by plate. The single frame where the horse's legs are fully gathered, a position that reads almost like a fall. The eye edits; the plate refuses to.

Maker: Eadweard Muybridge, collotype
Date: 1887
Medium of the original: Painting
Original held by: University of Pennsylvania / DPLA
Credit: University of Pennsylvania / DPLA
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00118

As chosen: 20 x 16 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	20 x 16 in
Outside size	21.6 x 17.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
10 x 8 in	300	Excellent	Trimmed 0.7%
14 x 11 in	215	Excellent	Trimmed 1.1%
16 x 12 in	188	Good	Trimmed 5.6%
20 x 16 in	150	Good	Trimmed 0.7%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
12 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
18 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
24 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
24 x 18 in	125 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
30 x 24 in	100 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
40 x 30 in	75 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	62 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop