Horses. Cantering – Historic Print
![Horses. Cantering, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/75/75eb5dc8c374-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. Cantering 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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Horses. Cantering
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Muybridge's cantering horse is one of the sequence studies he made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, when former Governor Leland Stanford hired him to settle a question that had divided horsemen for years: whether all four hooves leave the ground at once during a gallop. Published in 1881 as part of *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, the image is numbered 18 in the book's index of illustrations. Muybridge's series of cameras, triggered by tripwires, captured the stride in fractions of a second, and these albumen prints helped lay the groundwork for the motion pictures that followed.
| 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. 18. 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. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,115 × 4,110 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226667 |
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