Horses. Walking – Vintage Wall Art
![Horses. Walking, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ab/aba688ca90e9-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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This rare historic photograph captures Horses. Walking in remarkable 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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Muybridge's "Horses. Walking" belongs to a sequence of plates made at Leland Stanford's Palo Alto property in 1878 and 1879, when a battery of cameras was tripped by threads stretched across a track to capture a horse's stride in successive frames. This albumen print was issued in San Francisco around 1881 and appeared in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, where it illustrates the gait of a walking horse as a series of fixed positions. Photographs like these settled a long-running argument about whether all four hooves leave the ground at once, and they helped lay the groundwork for motion pictures.
| 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. 121-122. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Walking--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,148 × 4,121 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226768 |
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