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[Horse in motion, galloping] – Antique Wall Art

[Horse in motion, galloping], c1887. — historic photograph
[Horse in motion, galloping], c1887.. Historic photograph from the Horses collection.

(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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[Horse in motion, galloping] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This print isolates two frames from Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies of a galloping horse, catalogued as Plate 631. Muybridge's series, *Animal Locomotion*, used a row of cameras with fast shutters triggered in sequence to break motion into separate images. The work helped settle a long-running question about whether all four hooves leave the ground at once during a gallop, and it influenced later motion pictures. The catalog date of about 1887 matches the period when the plates were issued, though the caption card's details are unverified and worth checking against other sources.

Created / publishedc1887.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesDetail (2 frames) of motion picture still plates photographed and copyrighted by Eadweard Muybridge. Plate 631. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Animal locomotion; Horses...; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 936 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-133762

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