Skeleton of horse. Standing – Vintage Print
![Skeleton of horse. Standing, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0c/0c605323e2c1-L.webp)
(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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Skeleton of horse. Standing comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Skeleton of horse. Standing
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A standing horse skeleton, posed upright like a living animal, appears as plate number 194 in Eadweard Muybridge's *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, a book of sequential photographs made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. Muybridge produced the series for Leland Stanford, who wanted to settle whether a trotting horse ever has all four hooves off the ground. The skeleton image pairs the study of movement with the animal's underlying anatomy, showing the bone structure that made those motions possible. Muybridge copyrighted the book in 1881, and his use of rapid camera exposures helped lay groundwork for motion pictures.
| Created / published | [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | and LC-USZC4-13695 for images of this index." |
| Notes | Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing various movements; executed at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, no. 194. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Skeletons--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,165 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226802 |
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