Horses. Leaping – Vintage Wall Art
![Horses. Leaping, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/16/160fab91349c-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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Muybridge's sequence of a horse clearing a jump was made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, on the Stanford family's property, and this print comes from the series later gathered into his book The Attitudes of Animals in Motion, copyrighted in 1881. Leland Stanford had hired Eadweard Muybridge to settle a question that had divided horsemen for years: whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. Using a row of cameras triggered by tripwires, Muybridge caught the stages of a leap in quick succession, and the frames helped prove the moment of full suspension. Viewed today, the image is a key step toward the motion pictures that would follow.
| 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. 173-174. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Jumping (Horsemanship)--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,137 × 4,093 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226793 |
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