Horses. Irregular – Antique Print
![Horses. Irregular, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f1/f17781fc295b-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. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Muybridge's title, *Horses, Irregular*, marks this print as a study of an unusual gait rather than a standard one, and it appears as number 60 in his book on animal motion. The photographs were made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, on the farm of Leland Stanford, who hired Muybridge to settle a question that had divided horsemen for generations: whether a galloping horse ever has all four feet off the ground at once. Muybridge's multi-camera sequences helped show that it does, and his published plates became some of the first widely circulated records of motion broken into separate frames.
| 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. 60. 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 | 5,127 × 4,109 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226708 |
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