Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle – Historic Print
![Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fe/fea141320f37-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. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle, 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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Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle
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Caught mid-jump over a hurdle of 3 feet 6 inches, this horse appears in Eadweard Muybridge's series 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 know whether a galloping horse ever lifts all four hooves off the ground at once. Muybridge answered with a row of cameras whose shutters were tripped by threads stretched across the track. This albumen print was published as no. 48 in his 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, and the work is often counted among the forerunners of motion pictures.
| 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. 48. 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 × 4,109 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226697 |
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