Horses. Irregular – Antique Wall Art
![Horses. Irregular, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1c/1c22f57cfba4-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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A window into the past: Horses. Irregular, 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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Muybridge's "Horses. Irregular" belongs to a sequence made at Leland Stanford's horse farm in Palo Alto, California, where in 1878 and 1879 he set up a row of cameras along a track to photograph galloping horses. This print comes from the 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, where it is numbered 62 in the series of plates showing consecutive positions of a moving animal. The "irregular" in the title refers to a gait that departs from the even, regular stride of the other plates, and it is the kind of detail that shows how carefully Muybridge catalogued his subjects. Seen today, the set of frames still stands as an early step toward motion pictures.
| Created / published | [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. |
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| 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. 62. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,127 × 4,093 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226710 |
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