Skeleton of horse. Leaping. Leaving the ground – Antique Print
![Skeleton of horse. Leaping. Leaving the ground, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/81/81a5df961523-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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Step back in time with Skeleton of horse. Leaping. Leaving the ground, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Skeleton of horse. Leaping. Leaving the ground
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This print shows a horse skeleton caught in mid-leap, with the title noting that the figure has left the ground. It comes from Eadweard Muybridge's Palo Alto experiments of 1878 and 1879, which were commissioned by Leland Stanford to test whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. Muybridge published the results in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* in 1881, where this image appears as plate 202. The series helped establish the sequential photography that later led to motion pictures, which is why the image is often cited in film history.
| 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. 202. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Jumping--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Skeletons--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,165 × 4,126 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226810 |
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