Horses. After leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle – Antique Wall Art
![Horses. After leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0d/0ddc9e3ad520-L.webp)
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A window into the past: Horses. After leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Horses. After leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle
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A jumping horse clears a hurdle of 3 feet 6 inches in this sequence-based study, one of the plates Eadweard Muybridge made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. The series was produced for Leland Stanford, the railroad magnate and horse breeder, who wanted to settle whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. Muybridge used a row of cameras with tripwire shutters to capture those split-second positions, and this print, dated around 1881, was issued as part of the collection published that year. The images did more than answer Stanford's question. They influenced artists who had been painting horses in idealized poses, and they laid 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. 50. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Jumping (Horsemanship)--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,171 × 4,126 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226699 |
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