Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle – Antique Wall Art
![Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c2/c2968798330e-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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Step back in time with Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle
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In this print, a horse clears a hurdle set at 3 feet 6 inches, one of the jumping studies Eadweard Muybridge made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. The work was commissioned by Leland Stanford, the railroad magnate and horse breeder, who wanted to settle whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. Muybridge's cameras, tripped by wires as the animals passed, broke each movement into a series of frames. The image was published as plate 49 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* in 1881, and it shows the horse suspended in the air in a way that painters had rarely attempted.
| 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. 49. 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 | 5,126 × 4,120 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226698 |
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