Horses. Leaping – Antique Print
![Horses. Leaping, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6a/6ab6b9594e83-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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Horses. Leaping comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Muybridge's sequence of a horse leaping was made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, on the Stanford family's property, using a row of cameras triggered by tripwires as the animal passed. This albumen print is one of the plates later published in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* in 1881, and it captures the horse's body stretched out in midair, a pose that was hard to judge by eye. The series helped settle long-running arguments about whether all four hooves ever left the ground at once, and it stands as an early step toward the moving pictures shown on the gallery's board.
| 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. 175-176. 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 | 5,170 × 4,110 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226794 |
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