Horses. Running – Vintage Wall Art
![Horses. Running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e0/e04ab0d413d5-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: Horses. Running, 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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Eadweard Muybridge's series of horse studies was made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, on the estate of Leland Stanford, who had a stake in proving that a galloping horse lifts all four hooves off the ground at once. This albumen print was copyrighted in 1881 and appeared in Muybridge's book "The Attitudes of Animals in Motion," where it illustrates one step in a sequence of consecutive positions. Viewed alone, the image is a still, but it was built from a row of cameras triggered by tripwires, and its place in that series is what gives it meaning.
| 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. 157-158. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Running--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 | 5,148 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226785 |
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