Provenance

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

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Inscriptions

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.