Skeleton of horse. Trotting. Leaving the ground – Historic Print
![Skeleton of horse. Trotting. Leaving the ground, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/03/0364124b94ee-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Skeleton of horse. Trotting. Leaving the ground comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Skeleton of horse. Trotting. Leaving the ground
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A trotting horse's skeleton, shown in the instant it leaves the ground, makes this picture distinct from the living-animal studies that usually accompany it. Eadweard Muybridge made the image in San Francisco around 1881 as one of the plates in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, a book drawn from his experiments at Palo Alto in 1878 and 1879. Those experiments used a row of cameras triggered by tripwires to capture a horse's stride in rapid succession, and the sequence helped settle a long-running dispute about whether all four hooves leave the ground at once. The skeletal version was meant to show the underlying bone structure during that same moment.
| Created / published | [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | and LC-USZC4-13695 for images of this index." |
| Notes | Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing various movements; executed at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, no. 195. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Skeletons--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,122 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226803 |
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