Horses. Trotting – Vintage Print
![Horses. Trotting, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e1/e18d5c28ce25-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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Horses. Trotting
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Among Eadweard Muybridge's many studies of horses, this one shows a trotting horse photographed at Palo Alto, California, where he worked in 1878 and 1879 on a project backed by Leland Stanford, the railroad magnate and horse breeder. Stanford wanted to settle whether all four hooves leave the ground at once during movement, and a row of cameras set along a track produced the answer in a series of frames. The image was reproduced in Muybridge's 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, which is where its title and index entry come from. It is worth noticing how the sequence turns a blur of motion into a set of readable positions.
| 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. 131-132. 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. Walking--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,127 × 4,126 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226773 |
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