Horses. Walking – Historic Reproduction
![Horses. Walking, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5e/5e01136cc800-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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This rare historic photograph captures Horses. Walking in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Among the Palo Alto studies, this plate shows a horse at a walk, the slowest gait Eadweard Muybridge recorded. The series was made in 1878 and 1879 at Leland Stanford's horse farm, with cameras triggered by threads stretched across the track, to answer a long-running question about how horses actually move. The print was published in 1881 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, where it appears as number 12. Its sequence of frames shows how a walking horse lifts and sets down each leg in turn, a detail that painters had often gotten wrong.
| 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. 12. 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 | 5,116 × 4,104 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226661 |
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