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The zoopraxiscope--Horse galloping – Antique Print

The zoopraxiscope--Horse galloping, c1893. — antique lithograph
The zoopraxiscope--Horse galloping, c1893.. Antique lithograph 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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Step back in time with The zoopraxiscope--Horse galloping, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The zoopraxiscope--Horse galloping

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Numbered 42 in Eadweard Muybridge's series, this color lithograph shows a galloping horse as it would appear on a zoopraxiscope, the projector Muybridge built to animate sequences of motion. Earlier, he had used a row of cameras to photograph horses in motion, settling a long debate by showing that all four hooves leave the ground at once. Here those observations become a looping cycle of images meant to be spun rapidly so the animal seems to run. Dated around 1893, the print sits at the border between still photography and moving pictures.

Created / publishedc1893.
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
Genreand other venues
Notes14706Y U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. No. 42. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. Exhibited: Moving Pictures : The Un-easy Relationship between American Art and Early Film" at the Williams College of Art
SubjectsHorseback riding--1890-1900. Locomotion--1890-1900. Optical illusions--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,642 × 3,737 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221180

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