Horses. Cantering – Antique Wall Art
![Horses. Cantering, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8d/8db6986781aa-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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Horses. Cantering
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Plate 16 in Edward Muybridge's 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* shows a horse at a canter, one of the sequences he made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. The project began with a question from Leland Stanford, a former California governor and horse breeder, about whether all four hooves leave the ground during a gallop. Muybridge answered it with a row of cameras fired by tripwires along a track, and the series became a landmark in the study of motion and a precursor to motion pictures.
| 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. 16. 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 | 5,126 × 4,082 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226665 |
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