Horses. Running – Vintage Wall Art
![Horses. Running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1f/1f87f7cc002e-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. Running, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Eadweard Muybridge's sequence of a horse at a full run belongs to the 1878 and 1879 experiments at Leland Stanford's Palo Alto property, where cameras were set in a line along a track and tripped by the passing animal. This albumen print was issued as one of the plates in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* (1881), and its title and copyright notice tie it to that book. The series answered a question that had divided painters and horsemen for generations: whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. The sequential frames showed that it does, and the images helped shift how artists drew horses in motion, and later how filmmakers thought about movement itself.
| 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. 149-150. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Running--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 | 5,132 × 4,104 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226781 |
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