Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle. Irregular – Vintage Wall Art
![Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle. Irregular, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/10/1048c2e3ee76-L.webp)
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Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle. Irregular
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Plate 53 in Eadweard Muybridge's 1881 book on animal motion shows a horse clearing a 3-foot-6-inch hurdle. Muybridge made the series at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, on the farm of Leland Stanford, the railroad magnate who wanted to know whether a galloping horse ever has all four feet off the ground at once. Cameras along a track were tripped by threads the horse broke as it passed. Copyrighted in 1881, this albumen print is one of the earliest series to freeze animal motion into separate frames.
| 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. 53. 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 | 5,154 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226701 |
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