Photo copyright Eadweard Muybridge/U.S. Coast Guard Historian’s Office

Unseen photographs from Eadweard Muybridge, the 19th century photographer who pioneered the use of multiple cameras to capture motion, will be shown to the public for the first time ever in Britain later this year.

Muybridge (1830-1904) will be the subject of a brand new exhibit at the Tate Britain museum in London beginning in September. The show will be a retrospective of the photographer’s experiments in the emerging artform, and will include his famous images of humans and animals in motion (like the iconic The Horse in Motion), as well as his photographs of the American West during the 1860s.

Most notable in the exhibit however will be a series of never-before-seen images (like the one above, titled First-Order Light-house at Punta de los Reyes, Seacoast of California, 296 Feet Above Sea (4136), 1871) that will feature early pictures of lighthouses from Muybridge’s work for the U.S. Coast Guard.

The exhibit will also feature rare cyanotypes (blue photographic prints) that are the closest thing to negatives ever found of Muybridge’s work.

The Edweard Muybridge photography retrospective can be seen at the Tate Britain starting September 8 through January 16, 2011.