Horses. Pacing – Historic Reproduction
![Horses. Pacing, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a5/a52345954405-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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Pacing is the gait in which a horse moves both legs on one side together, and this print from Eadweard Muybridge's Palo Alto series shows it in a sequence of positions. The photographs were made at Leland Stanford's stock farm in 1878 and 1879, when Muybridge set a row of cameras along a track and triggered each shutter as the horse passed. The plate is number 59 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, published in 1881, and its subjects include a carriage as well as the horse. The series helped answer a question that had long been argued among horsemen and artists: what the hooves actually do in motion.
| 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. 59. 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 | 5,154 × 4,098 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226707 |
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