Horses. Trotting – Historic Print
![Horses. Trotting, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6d/6d392ff52d47-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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Eadweard Muybridge made this albumen print around 1881 as one frame from his sequence studies of horses in motion, taken at Leland Stanford's horse-breeding property in Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. The "Trotting" sequence shows a horse at speed, pulling a carriage, and it was published as plate 32 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*. Muybridge's use of rapid successive exposures helped answer a long-running question about whether a trotting horse ever had all four hooves off the ground at once. The series is widely cited as an early step toward motion pictures, which is why this print is often shown alongside the history of film.
| 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. 32. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Carriages & coaches--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,165 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226681 |
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