Horses. Irregular – Vintage Print
![Horses. Irregular, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5d/5d1e5538e0ec-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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This rare historic photograph captures Horses. Irregular in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Rather than a horse at a steady gait, this plate is titled for irregular movement, and its subject list includes a carriage, which sets it apart from the straightforward gait studies in the series. Muybridge made the photographs in 1878 and 1879 at Palo Alto, Leland Stanford's property, using a row of cameras whose shutters were tripped by threads stretched across the track. The plate appeared in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* in 1881, where it was meant to show what a horse's legs actually do in motion, a question painters had long answered by guesswork.
| 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. 68. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Carriages & coaches--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,121 × 4,099 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226716 |
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