Skeleton of horse. Trotting. On the ground – Historic Print
![Skeleton of horse. Trotting. On the ground, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/40/40ba22d2597b-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: Skeleton of horse. Trotting. On the ground, 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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Skeleton of horse. Trotting. On the ground
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This print is distinctive for its subject: a horse's skeleton posed in the midst of a trot, rather than a living animal. Eadweard Muybridge made it in Palo Alto, California, where he worked in the late 1870s on experiments to settle whether a galloping or trotting horse ever has all four hooves off the ground. The image was published in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* (1881), which paired such sequences with anatomical studies. Viewers today often find it striking because it turns a fleeting gait into a fixed study of bone and joint.
| 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. 197. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Skeletons--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,143 × 4,131 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226805 |
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