Horses. Trotting – Historic Reproduction
![Horses. Trotting, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9a/9a2b5167d31a-L.webp)
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Plate 30 in Eadweard Muybridge's 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* shows a horse at the trot, broken into a sequence of consecutive positions. Muybridge made the series at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, working for Leland Stanford, who wanted to settle whether a trotting horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. Muybridge's answer came from a row of cameras fired by tripwires along the track, an early step toward the motion pictures that would later be shown on the screen.
| 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. 30. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horseback riding--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,126 × 4,098 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226679 |
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