Horses. Running--Horses. Cantering – Antique Print
![Horses. Running--Horses. Cantering, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/91/91f2bd27ed33-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. Running--Horses. Cantering
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Muybridge's cantering horse is one of the sequence studies he made at Leland Stanford's Palo Alto property in 1878 and 1879, when a row of cameras was triggered by tripwires as a horse passed. Printed by Muybridge in San Francisco around 1881, this albumen print was reproduced in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, which published the series as a book of consecutive positions. The sequence answered a question painters and horsemen had argued over for generations: whether a cantering horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. Muybridge's images helped settle that debate and became foundational to the study of motion in photography and early 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. 185-186. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Running--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 | 5,115 × 4,098 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226799 |
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