Horses. Irregular – Historic Reproduction
![Horses. Irregular, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/24/24b3426bacc3-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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Horses. Irregular comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Unlike the gallop studies that made Muybridge famous, this plate shows horses in the act of pulling, one of the many movements in his 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, where it appears as plate number 6. The sequences were made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, using a row of cameras that fired as the animals passed tripwires, a method developed in part to answer whether a trotting or galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground. Muybridge later shared the work with Leland Stanford, who had financed the project and whose Palo Alto stock farm supplied the horses. Viewed today, the print reads as an early step toward motion pictures, since its successive frames show a single action broken into moments.
| 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. 6. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Pulling--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,132 × 4,099 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226655 |
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