Detail of the Track at Leland Stanford's Horse Farm in Palo Alto

attributed to Eadweard Muybridge, 1878–1879

This is a photograph of a horse standing on a surface with a sloping wall as a backdrop. The horse is well-groomed and attentive, with a lead line extending horizontally. The background and floor have geometric lines… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: attributed to Eadweard Muybridge ¹
Date: 1878–1879 ¹
Medium: albumen silver print ¹
Original: 6,919 × 9,257 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Charles Isaacs)

Object record, National Gallery of Art

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