Horses. Cantering – Antique Wall Art
![Horses. Cantering, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b9/b921b68bc084-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Horses. Cantering. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Horses. Cantering
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Muybridge's cantering horse belongs to the series he made at Leland Stanford's Palo Alto property in 1878 and 1879, when a row of cameras fired in quick succession as a horse passed a tripwire. This print comes from the 1881 book The Attitudes of Animals in Motion, where it appears among the numbered plates showing the consecutive positions of a horse in a gait. The sequence was staged to settle a debate over whether all four hooves leave the ground at once during a gallop, and the frames show the rider's and horse's poses frame by frame. Its place in the history of motion pictures comes from exactly this kind of breakdown of movement into separate images.
| 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. 129-130. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--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 | 5,187 × 4,131 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226772 |
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