The zoopraxiscope - a horse back somersault – Vintage Wall Art
(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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The zoopraxiscope - a horse back somersault comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The zoopraxiscope - a horse back somersault
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Rather than a single rider frozen mid-gallop, this print shows an acrobat performing a backward somersault on horseback, broken into a series of successive positions. Its title names the zoopraxiscope, the projector Eadweard Muybridge developed to show such sequences as moving images, built on his earlier photographic studies of animal and human motion from the 1880s. Muybridge registered the copyright around 1893, when he was presenting these projected shows to the public. Today the print is worth a close look as an early step toward motion pictures, with each phase of the leap set side by side in color.
| Created / published | c1893. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | and other venues |
| Notes | 14571Y U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. No. 1. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. Exhibited: Moving Pictures : The Un-easy Relationship between American Art and Early Film" at the Williams College of Art |
| Subjects | Acrobatics--1890-1900. Horseback riding--1890-1900. Locomotion--1890-1900. Optical illusions--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,647 × 3,737 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221178 |
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