Ox, trotting – Vintage Print
![Ox, trotting, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0d/0d952b0baf70-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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Ox, trotting
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Most of Eadweard Muybridge's famous sequences show horses, but this print turns to a working ox caught mid-trot, one of the few cattle in his series. It comes from *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, where Muybridge published photographs made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. He set a row of cameras along a track, each triggered by the animal as it passed, so that the sequence of frames could show the exact placement of each hoof. The album was copyrighted in 1881, and this albumen print dates from around that year. Its value lies in showing that the stride of a trotting ox could be studied as precisely as that of a horse.
| 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. 79. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Oxen--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,160 × 4,109 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226727 |
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