Horses. Trotting – Historic Print
![Horses. Trotting, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/28/28096f8302dd-L.webp)
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Plate 23 in Eadweard Muybridge's *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* shows a trotting horse hitched to a carriage, one of the sequences he made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. Those experiments were funded by Leland Stanford, who wanted to learn whether a horse's hooves all leave the ground at once during a gallop. Muybridge set up a row of cameras along the track, each triggered by a tripwire as the horse passed, which broke the animal's motion into separate frames. This albumen print, copyrighted in 1881, helped establish sequence photography, a method that later fed into motion pictures.
| 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. 23. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Carriages & coaches--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,148 × 4,093 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226672 |
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