Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle – Vintage Print
![Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b9/b9fd1113013f-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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Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle
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Muybridge's plate 44 shows a horse clearing a hurdle set at 3 feet 6 inches, one of the jumping studies he made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. The series was commissioned by former governor Leland Stanford, who wanted to settle whether a horse's legs ever all leave the ground in a gallop, and Muybridge used a row of cameras triggered by tripwires to freeze the motion. Printed as an albumen print for the 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, the image has a soft, slightly glossy tone. Its sequence of separate poses helped lay the groundwork for the moving pictures that came later.
| 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. 44. 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 | 5,149 × 4,137 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226693 |
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