EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 27 © 2019 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

4 with all four legs stretched out, much like a hobby horse. Remington was the first artist to show them at their true gait of motion, in no part thanks to the recent sequential photographs of one Eadweard Muybridge. Using multiple cameras strategically placed along a path an animal or human was to go through, and triggered by a mechanism every time an object passed in front of one of the lenses, a picture was taken, ensuring Muybridge obtained a series of stop-motion images from the movement captured by the camera lenses. Thanks to these photographic shots, the actual animals and humans in motion could be seen in a single frame (or a series of frames for continuity, this being a likely precursor to motion pictures). Using these images as reference, Remington painted the way horses really looked while galloping, and was the first artist to do so.