Horses. Leaping – Vintage Wall Art
![Horses. Leaping, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5e/5ef0fcce6d73-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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Horses. Leaping in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Order it framed and ready to hang, or unframed to match a frame you already love. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Horses. Leaping
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Muybridge's horse in mid-leap is one of the plates from his sequence made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, when he set a row of cameras along a track to capture a galloping horse in rapid succession. This print was issued as part of the study *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, copyrighted in 1881, and it shows the animal suspended with all four legs off the ground. Those stop-motion images, sometimes called early motion studies, helped settle a long-running argument among painters and scientists over how horses actually moved, and they are often considered a forerunner of motion pictures.
| 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. 171-172. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Jumping (Horsemanship)--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 | 5,160 × 4,110 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226792 |
More from the Movies & Film collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
