Horses. Running--Horses. Cantering. – Historic Print
![Horses. Running--Horses. Cantering., [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/55/55ea3d7a6444-L.webp)
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Step back in time with Horses. Running--Horses. Cantering., a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Horses. Running--Horses. Cantering.
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Among the many Muybridge horse studies, this print is marked as a cantering sequence, a gait in which the horse's legs move in a three-beat rhythm that the naked eye could not resolve. The photograph comes from *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, a series of images made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879 for Leland Stanford, who wanted to settle whether all four of a galloping horse's hooves ever left the ground at once. Edward Muybridge's battery of cameras, triggered by tripwires along a track, produced the consecutive frames that became a foundation for the study of motion and, later, for the development of motion pictures.
| 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. 179-180. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Running--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,182 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226796 |
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