Notes, Letters and Photographs Regarding Photographic Representation of Galloping Horses

Letter from Muybridge to Galton dated 28 March 1880, regarding Galton's proposals to create composite images from Muybridge's "the horse in motion" (1878), discussing previous attempts, artistic representations of galloping horses, and Galton's work on composite portaiture.

Clipping from Nature, 6 Jul 1882, of Galton's article "Conventional Representation of the Horse in Motion".

Galton's manuscript notes on "the horse in motion"; 2 ff.

Manuscript, with images, of "Explanation, by composites, of Muybridge's photographs, of the conventional representation of a galloping horse. by Francis Galton, F.R.S. June 1882."

1880-1882

1 folder

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