Horses. Cantering – Historic Print
![Horses. Cantering, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/65/65e045e4fdb6-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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Muybridge's cantering horse is one of the sequence photographs made at Leland Stanford's Palo Alto property in 1878 and 1879, when Stanford hired him to settle whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground. The print was later published in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, a book of consecutive frames showing the stages of a gait, and it is copyrighted under Muybridge's name. Set against the still pictures of its day, the series shows how a camera could freeze motion too quick for the eye to follow.
| 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. 125-126. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--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 | 5,132 × 4,120 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226770 |
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