Horses. Trotting – Historic Reproduction
![Horses. Trotting, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fe/fe1e6c292a27-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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Horses. Trotting comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Muybridge's trotting horse is the one in this series that shows the animal's legs in the air at once, a detail that made it stand out to contemporary viewers. The plate comes from his 1878 and 1879 sequences at Palo Alto, California, made with Leland Stanford's support to settle a question that had divided horsemen for years: whether a trotting horse ever lifts all four hooves off the ground together. Printed as an albumen photograph and issued in 1881 as no. 25 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, it helped establish the image sequence as a tool for studying movement and laid groundwork for the development of 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. 25. 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 | 5,127 × 4,087 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226674 |
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