Horses. Trotting change to running – Historic Print
![Horses. Trotting change to running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/eb/ebd5516895bb-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 change to running 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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A single sequence frame captures a horse shifting from a trot into a run, one of the gait transitions Eadweard Muybridge studied at Palo Alto. Working for Leland Stanford, who wanted to settle whether a horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once, Muybridge set up a line of cameras in 1878 and 1879. Images like this one, numbered plate 58 in his 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, were printed as albumen prints and helped show motion that the eye could not follow in real time. The series is often cited as an early step toward motion pictures.
| 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. 58. 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 | 5,143 × 4,082 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226706 |
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