Horses. Trotting – Vintage Print
![Horses. Trotting, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/bb/bbfb348c1abd-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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This rare historic photograph captures Horses. Trotting in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Plate 33 in Muybridge's *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* shows a trotting horse drawing a carriage, a pairing the subject headings note and that sets it apart from the saddle and free-running studies in the series. Muybridge made the photographs at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, working for Leland Stanford, a former governor and racehorse breeder who wanted to learn whether all four hooves left the ground at once in a trot. Muybridge answered that question with a row of cameras triggered by tripwires as the animal passed. Sequences like this one, published in 1881, became an early step toward motion pictures, which is why the image appears in film history collections.
| 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. 33. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Carriages & coaches--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,165 × 4,109 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226682 |
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