Ox, walking – Antique Print
![Ox, walking, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/14/140af1a5a486-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, walking
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Among the Muybridge studies of animal motion, this plate stands out for its subject: an ox caught mid-stride rather than a horse or human figure. The series was made at Eadweard Muybridge's Palo Alto studio in 1878 and 1879, where he set a row of cameras along a track and triggered them in sequence as animals passed. The resulting consecutive images were published in 1881 as The Attitudes of Animals in Motion, and this print, numbered 78 in that volume, is one of the sequence's plates. Its sequence of positions helped settle a long-running question about how legs move in a walking gait, and it remains a useful record of early motion photography.
| 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. 78. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Walking--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Oxen--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,154 × 4,110 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226726 |
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