Skeleton of horse. Running. Contact with the ground – Antique Wall Art
![Skeleton of horse. Running. Contact with the ground, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d0/d0ac8af0bb1b-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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A window into the past: Skeleton of horse. Running. Contact with the ground, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Skeleton of horse. Running. Contact with the ground
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This horse skeleton, shown running with a hoof in contact with the ground, is plate 200 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, Eadweard Muybridge's 1881 volume of studies made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. The series grew out of Leland Stanford's question of whether a galloping horse ever has all four feet off the ground, answered with cameras triggered by threads stretched across the track. Printed as an albumen print, the picture lets viewers study the skeleton's leg mechanics at a single instant.
| 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. 200. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Running--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Skeletons--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,209 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226808 |
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