Horses. Pacing – Historic Print
![Horses. Pacing, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/39/39131b2b4125-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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Horses. Pacing. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Horses. Pacing
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Pacing, a gait in which a horse moves both legs on one side together, sets this plate apart from the trotting and galloping studies in the same series. Eadweard Muybridge made the photographs at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, on Leland Stanford's horse farm, where he was working on the question of whether a trotting horse ever has all four feet off the ground at once. The sequence was published in 1881 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, and the carriage in the subject list places the horse in harness, the kind of rig that driving and racing enthusiasts of the day cared about. Worth noticing is how the cameras, triggered in fractions of a second as the horse passed, froze poses the human eye could not follow.
| 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. 21. 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 | 5,137 × 4,104 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226670 |
More from the Movies & Film collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
