The zoopraxiscope--Horse galloping – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique lithograph of The zoopraxiscope--Horse galloping brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The zoopraxiscope--Horse galloping
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Titled for both the projector and the animal it set in motion, this color lithograph shows a galloping horse as the zoopraxiscope's subject. Eadweard Muybridge, who copyrighted the image, invented the device to project the sequences of motion he had photographed with multiple cameras, beginning with his studies of horses in California in the 1870s. Projected from glass discs painted with successive poses, these sequences gave audiences some of the earliest convincing illusions of movement. The print's later exhibition at Williams College, under the title *Moving Pictures*, places it within the history of early film.
| Created / published | c1893. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | and other venues |
| Notes | 14706Y U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. No. 42. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. Exhibited: Moving Pictures : The Un-easy Relationship between American Art and Early Film" at the Williams College of Art |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--1890-1900. Locomotion--1890-1900. Optical illusions--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,933 × 3,906 px · prints to 13 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 05947u The zoopraxiscope--Horse galloping |
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