P2000.65: "Abe Edgington," owned by Leland Stanford; trotting at an 8-minute gait over the Palo Alto track, 18th June 1878.

Identification and Creation

Object Number

P2000.65

People

Eadweard Muybridge, British (Kingston-on-Thames, England 1830 - 1904 Kingston-on-Thames, England)

Title

"Abe Edgington," owned by Leland Stanford; trotting at an 8-minute gait over the Palo Alto track, 18th June 1878.

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: The Horse in Motion

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

June 18, 1878

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, California, Palo Alto

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/160419

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Albumen silver print

Dimensions

image: 8.9 x 20.9 cm (3 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)
mount: 13.3 x 21.4 cm (5 1/4 x 8 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: recto of mount, lower right, graphite: N1251J
• inscription: recto of vintage mount, below image, pre-printed mount: Copyright, 1878, by Muybridge The Morse Gallery, 417 Montgomery St., San Francisco [over] The Horse in Motopn. [over] Illustrated by [over] Muybridge. Patent--Automatic Electro-Photograph. [over] "Abe Edgington," owned by Leland Stanford; trotting at an 8-minute gait over the Palo Alto track, 18th June 1878. [over] The negatives of these photographs were made at intervals of twenty-one inches of distance. They illustrate consecutive positions assumed during a single stride of the [over] horse. The vertical lines were twenty-one inches apart; the horizontal lines represent elevations of four inches. The negatives were [over] each exposed during the two-thousandth part of a second, and are absolutely "untouched."

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Charles Isaacs, sold to Harvard University Art Museums, 2000.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs

Accession Year

2000

Object Number

P2000.65

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Rebecca Voelcker, "Just in Time", Index Magazine, Harvard Art Museums ([e-journal], March 20, 2018), https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/article/just-in-time, accessed March 28, 2018

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/01/2017 - 03/07/2018

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