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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Seated J, post: 8165416, member: 102873&quot;]The few that read my page may have noted I mentioned the rocking horse pose which is completely unnatural as was shown by the 19th century photographer Eadweard Muybridge&#039;s experiments in the photography of motion.&nbsp; As a photographer, I found this matter quite interesting both then and now.&nbsp; Muybridge&#039;s motion work came around the time he was acquitted of the killing of his wife&#039;s lover on the grounds of justifiable homicide.&nbsp; I always wondered, had he been convicted, how long it would have been before someone else realized that horses di not run this way.&nbsp; The legal system came through on the side of art and science.&nbsp; It might be noted that his legal bills were underwritten by Leland Stanford who was commissioning Muybridge to settle the horse question once and for all so one might also wonder how the case would have been resolved had there not been this patronage.&nbsp; This might seem out of place in a coin discussion but these coins do show that the Romans shared the erroneous belief of the 19th century that horses ran with this pose. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p><p>Your comment reminded me of this US postage stamp of 1869 which also shows a horse in an unrealistic running pose and was widely criticized at the time. Seems likely Stanford was aware of it.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.6a374687126367312bd5ea6a6b751271?rik=%2fhWfb4HujRjoyw&amp;riu=http%3a%2f%2fwww.usphila.com%2fstamps%2fus%2f113%2fus-stamp-values-scott-113-1869-2-cents-pictorial-horse-rider-siegel-975-1335.jpg&amp;ehk=DBvU6NO%2fm6vickPZgUPAXKu9tjpz%2bZE%2bwYrEkilh5dU%3d&amp;risl=&amp;pid=ImgRaw&amp;r=0" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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