Horses. Cantering – Vintage Print
![Horses. Cantering, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/51/51ae65267da5-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. Cantering
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Plate 17 in Eadweard Muybridge's 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* shows a horse at a canter, one stage in a sequence that splits a stride into separate moments. The series was made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, where Leland Stanford wanted to settle whether a running horse ever had all four hooves off the ground at once. Muybridge set a line of cameras along a track, each triggered as the horse passed, so the shutters caught the motion in fractions of a second. The frozen positions influenced how artists and scientists understood animal movement.
| 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. 17. 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. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,165 × 4,120 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226666 |
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