Horses. Leaping--Horses. Walking – Historic Print
![Horses. Leaping--Horses. Walking, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/bc/bcc82a499910-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--Horses. Walking
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Muybridge's sequence of a horse caught mid-leap and walking belongs to a series made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, on the Stanford family's property under Leland Stanford's sponsorship. Twelve cameras were set along a track and tripped by threads as the animal passed, producing consecutive frames of a single gait. The plates were later issued in The Attitudes of Animals in Motion, copyrighted in 1881, and the print shows how a leaping horse actually moves through the air, a question that artists and horsemen had argued about for generations. Its place in the book is what makes it worth noticing as an early step toward motion pictures.
| 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. 177-178. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Jumping (Horsemanship)--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,121 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226795 |
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