Skeleton of horse. Trotting. Nearing the ground – Antique Print
![Skeleton of horse. Trotting. Nearing the ground, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/77/779a9cfbbab5-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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Skeleton of horse. Trotting. Nearing the ground
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Here the horse is reduced to its frame: a skeleton posed in the trotting stride, photographed just as the legs near the ground. Eadweard Muybridge made the pictures at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, and published this one as no. 196 in his 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*. The work was part of a effort backed by Leland Stanford to settle how a horse's legs actually move, a question that painters and horsemen had argued over for generations. The bare bones make the structure of the gait easier to read than a living animal does.
| 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. 196. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Skeletons--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,165 × 4,126 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226804 |
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