Skeleton of horse. Leaping. Leaving the ground – Antique Wall Art
![Skeleton of horse. Leaping. Leaving the ground, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a0/a016c6a82bbd-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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A window into the past: Skeleton of horse. Leaping. Leaving the ground, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Skeleton of horse. Leaping. Leaving the ground
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Few images in the Muybridge series show a horse's bones rather than its living body. Here a horse skeleton is caught in the air, leaving the ground, and the bare frame makes the skeletal mechanics of a jump easy to read. Muybridge made it at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, using a row of cameras with trip wires to capture rapid sequences, a project backed by Leland Stanford, who wanted to settle whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground. The plate appeared in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* (1881), which turned these studies into a reference book for artists and scientists.
| 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. 201. 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 | 5,137 × 4,109 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226809 |
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