Horses. Irregular – Vintage Wall Art
![Horses. Irregular, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e4/e48be38a7299-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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This rare historic photograph captures Horses. Irregular in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Muybridge labeled this plate "Horses. Irregular," marking it as a gait outside the standard walk, trot, or gallop. It is number 64 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, a book copyrighted in 1881 that drew on photographs taken at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. Muybridge had set up his cameras there to answer a question about whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. The sequence approach behind plates like this one helped lay groundwork for motion pictures, which is why the image appears on a gallery board devoted to film.
| 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. 64. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,132 × 4,109 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226712 |
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