Horses. Walking change to trotting – Antique Wall Art
![Horses. Walking change to trotting, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fe/feaef9a02f00-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. Walking change to trotting in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Horses. Walking change to trotting
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Muybridge's sequence of a horse shifting from a walk into a trot was made at Leland Stanford's Palo Alto property in 1878 and 1879, using a row of cameras triggered by tripwires as the animal passed. This print, published in the 1881 book The Attitudes of Animals in Motion, shows the moment of transition between the two gaits, which had long been argued over by horsemen and painters who could not see the rapid leg movements with the naked eye. The subjects listed for the image also point to the carriage and coach context of the Stanford stables, where such horses were kept. Muybridge's work from this period helped settle the question of how a horse's legs actually move in each gait.
| 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. 56. 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 | 5,115 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226704 |
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