Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle – Vintage Wall Art
![Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5f/5ffb8df55beb-L.webp)
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Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle
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Eadweard Muybridge's sequence of a horse clearing a 3-foot-6-inch hurdle belongs to a series he made at Leland Stanford's horse farm in Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. Muybridge used a row of cameras with tripwire shutters, set along the track, to capture a fraction of a second at each stage of the animal's motion, and the results were later arranged as a sequence of consecutive positions. This print appeared as plate 46 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, published in 1881, when the images were still a novel way to study how animals moved. Muybridge's work, which resolved long-running arguments about whether all four hooves left the ground at once in a gallop, is often cited as a direct precursor of motion pictures.
| Created / published | [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. |
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| 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. 46. 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 | 5,132 × 4,137 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226695 |
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