Horses. Backing – Antique Print
![Horses. Backing, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/cf/cfc68bd94271-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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Plate 73 shows a horse being backed, the early stage of training in which a rider is first placed on an animal and the horse learns to accept the weight. Eadweard Muybridge made the picture at Palo Alto in 1878 and 1879, when Leland Stanford had hired him to study how horses move, and it was published in 1881 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*. Because the separate exposures are arranged in sequence, viewers can follow the horse's posture from one moment to the next, a level of detail that was hard to observe by eye.
| 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. 73. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,143 × 4,137 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226721 |
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