Horses. Trotting – Historic Print
![Horses. Trotting, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/73/73a562e97815-L.webp)
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Among Eadweard Muybridge's Palo Alto studies, this print shows a trotting horse broken into a row of consecutive positions. It appears as one of the plates (nos. 135 and 136) in his 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*. The photographs were made in 1878 and 1879 on Leland Stanford's Palo Alto property, where a line of cameras was triggered by threads stretched across the track as the horse passed. The series addressed a long-running dispute about what a horse's legs actually do in motion, and it remains a landmark in the early history of photography.
| 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. 135-136. 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 | 5,143 × 4,099 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226775 |
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