Horses. Pacing – Vintage Wall Art
![Horses. Pacing, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/83/832cb477501b-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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Few sequences in Muybridge's work show gait as plainly as this pacing horse, in which the two legs on each side move together, a motion the eye rarely catches at speed. The print is one of the plates from *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, a book of photographs made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879 on Leland Stanford's horse farm. Muybridge lined up a row of cameras along a track and tripped each shutter as the horse passed, then arranged the frames to show consecutive positions. The carriage in the subject list points to the harness work these studies were built around, and the series helped answer long-running questions about how horses actually move.
| 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. 19. 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 | 5,121 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226668 |
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