The Horse in Motion, 1878

Not on View

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

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sheet: 10.2 × 20.6 cm (4 × 8 1/8 in.)
mount: 13.3 × 21.6 cm (5 1/4 × 8 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Robert B. Menschel

Accession Number

2022.154.13

Artists / Makers

Eadweard Muybridge (artist) American, born England, 1830 - 1904

Image Use

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Inscription

printed, lower right on mount in black ink: Copyright, 1878, by MUYBRIDGE.; lower right: MORSE'S Gallery, 417 Montgomery St., San Francisco.; bottom center: THE HORSE IN MOTION. / Illustrated by / MUYBRIDGE. / AUTOMATIC ELECTRO-PHOTOGRAPH. / "SALLIE GARDNER," owned by LELAND STANFORD; running at a 1.40 gait over the Palo Alto track, 19th June, 1878. / The negatives of these photographs were made at intervals of twenty-seven inches of distance, and about the twenty-fifth part of a second of time; they illustrate consecutive positions / assumed in each twenty-seven inches of progress during a single stride of the mare. The vertical lines were twenty-seven inches apart; the horizontal / lines represent elevations of four inches each. The exposure of each negative was less than the two-thousandth part of a second.

Provenance

Estate of Robert B. Menschel, New York; gift to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Menschel, Robert B. Mr.