Horses. Cantering – Vintage Wall Art
![Horses. Cantering, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0b/0bd4f9cf4b8d-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.)
Description
Horses. Cantering 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.
Order it framed and ready to hang, or unframed to match a frame you already love. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Horses. Cantering
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Eadweard Muybridge's sequence of horses in motion was made at his Palo Alto, California, property in 1878 and 1879, using a row of cameras with trip wires that photographed the animal as it passed. This print, titled "Horses. Cantering," comes from The Attitudes of Animals in Motion, a book Muybridge published in 1881 that gathered the series into numbered plates. The images settled a long-running argument over whether all four of a galloping horse's hooves ever left the ground at once, and they showed the cantering gait as a sequence of distinct positions. Muybridge's work also laid groundwork for the moving pictures that would follow, which is why the print appears in a gallery on film history.
| Created / published | [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. |
|---|---|
| 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. 127-128. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,132 × 4,099 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226771 |
More from the Movies & Film collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
