Horses. Trotting – Antique Print
![Horses. Trotting, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9c/9c2aa13c370e-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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A window into the past: Horses. Trotting, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Plate 27 in Eadweard Muybridge's *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* shows a horse caught mid-trot, one step in a sequence of consecutive positions. Muybridge made the series at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, on the farm of Leland Stanford, a former governor and horse breeder who had commissioned the work to settle a long-running debate over whether a trotting horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. Muybridge used a row of cameras with shutters fired by tripwires to freeze motion that the eye could not follow, and this albumen print preserves that record. Its images later helped pave the way for motion pictures.
| 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. 27. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,067 × 4,039 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226676 |
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