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/9e/9e0e99decaca-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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Eadweard Muybridge photographed this horse clearing a hurdle set at 3 feet 6 inches, one of many jumps he recorded at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. His cameras were triggered by threads stretched across the horse's path, which let him capture a series of moments too brief for the eye to follow. This print was published as plate 47 in his 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, where it shows the animal's legs in positions that painters had often drawn incorrectly. Muybridge's work at the Palo Alto stock farm of Leland Stanford, a railroad magnate and horse breeder, helped lead to the motion pictures this board explores.
| 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. 47. 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 | 5,148 × 4,104 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226696 |
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