Horses. Pacing – Historic Print
![Horses. Pacing, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7e/7ef453bf5015-L.webp)
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Among Muybridge's Palo Alto studies, this plate isolates the pacing gait, in which a horse moves both legs on one side together. Muybridge made the series at Palo Alto, California, on the farm of Leland Stanford, and the plate appeared as number 22 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, published in 1881. The inclusion of a carriage in the subject reflects the driving and trotting culture that shaped the project. Muybridge's rows of cameras, triggered as the horse passed, turned split-second movements into a sequence that artists and scientists could study closely.
| 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. 22. 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 | 5,050 × 4,027 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226671 |
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