Horses. Ambling or single foot – Vintage Wall Art
![Horses. Ambling or single foot, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3e/3eb3b8124d02-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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A window into the past: Horses. Ambling or single foot, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Horses. Ambling or single foot
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This print belongs to Eadweard Muybridge's series on horse gaits, made at Leland Stanford's Palo Alto property in 1878 and 1879. It shows a horse in the ambling, or single-foot, gait, a smooth four-beat walk in which the legs on each side move in close succession. Muybridge ran a row of cameras along a track, each triggered by the passing horse, to capture motion too quick for the eye. The image was published in 1881 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, where it was one of many plates meant to show how animals actually move.
| 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. 14. 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 | 5,137 × 4,093 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226663 |
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