Horses. Ambling or single foot – Antique Print
![Horses. Ambling or single foot, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/23/237c8f0d5b7a-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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Horses. Ambling or single foot
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Plate 13 in Eadweard Muybridge's *Attitudes of Animals in Motion* shows horses performing the ambling, or single-foot, gait, a smooth four-beat stride in which one foot lifts at a time. The series was made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, when Muybridge lined up a row of cameras along a track and fired them with tripwires as the animals passed. The 1881 book and its prints were meant to replace guesswork about how animals actually move with photographic evidence, and this sequence captures a gait that is hard to follow with the naked eye.
| 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. 13. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Walking--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,159 × 4,121 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226662 |
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