Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle – Vintage Print
![Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/27/273f6fdaf539-L.webp)
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A window into the past: Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle, 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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Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle
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Muybridge's series of horses clearing a hurdle is one of the more dynamic plates in his study of animal motion, showing the animal at successive stages of a jump. The sequence was made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, when Eadweard Muybridge was working on the Stanford family's property with a battery of cameras set along a track. The print is an albumen photograph issued in 1881 as part of *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, a book that helped establish the scientific study of movement and laid groundwork for motion pictures. Its hurdle height of 3 feet 6 inches is recorded in the title, a detail that anchors the image to the experiment's careful measurement.
| 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. 45. 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 | 5,121 × 4,087 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226694 |
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