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Textiles Animals Myth Unicorns Flora Pre-16th century

The Unicorn is in Captivity and No Longer Dead

Anonymous, ca. 1500

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Premium fine art paper: 100% cotton, acid-free, archival

Frame Type

Overview

Archival inks (Giclée process) on premium fine art paper (100% cotton, acid-free).
1" border
Image Size: 8.3" x 12" – Total Size: 10.3" x 14"

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Textiles Animals Myth Unicorns Flora Pre-16th century

The PDR print shop is an excellent resource for unusual and unique prints from every era and style. They are beautifully executed, and arrive quickly. My highest recommendation!

Todd Pearson
San Francisco, CA, United States

Just gorgeous prints - I’ve ordered around four over the years and they’re honestly faultless. Huge recommendation.

David Houston
London, United Kingdom

Stunning prints in excellent quality. I could not be happier with the results. I will continue to fill my home with art from PDR’s prints shop.

Thilde Wolf
Lund, Sweden

I own several PDR prints and have also given them as gifts. The attention to detail never disappoints! This is true from the curation to the artifact that you receive in the mail. Highly recommended.

Schmudde
Turin, Italy

Beautiful reproductions, incredible imagination and imaginative curation. Great care taken with packaging and presentation.

Simon
London, United Kingdom

Beautiful reproductions w/ great care in packaging and the framing pristine. I’ll send a friend a selfie and, ignoring my new haircut, they'll ask: “Where did you find that unique & gorgeous print?!”

Gretchen
VA, USA

I got a framed Munch print as a Christmas gift for my brother. The print was beautiful with super clear resolution and the framing was immaculate.

Mark W
Baltimore, MD, United States

I ordered a bunch of framed prints as gifts, and one for myself. I love them, I want more, wish my whole house was salon-style pictures from PDR.

Tom Hart
Providence, RI, United States

Prints arrived relatively quickly and were of very high quality.

Sohraub
Toronto, Canada

Love the quality of the print and the frame.

Rich M
Mt Airy, MD, United States

I’m addicted to these prints. The quality is exceptional and if you’re a fan of the PDR, then these are a no-brainer. I’ve got a small collection now. They also make for excellent, original gifts.

George Webster
London, United Kingdom

The seventh and final scene from the "Unicorn Tapestries", one of the most spectacular but enigmatic surviving artworks of the late Middle Ages. Depicting a unicorn hunt, in the penultimate tapestry in the series the unicorn is eventually killed. In this last, however, the unicorn is shown alive and well, and entirely tamed. He is fenced in and chained to a tree, but the chain is less than secure and the fence is low. He has submitted to his captivity. The red stains on his flank, in the words of the Met’s catalog, “do not appear to be blood, as there are no visible wounds like those in the hunting series; rather, they represent juice dripping from bursting pomegranates” — a medieval symbol of marriage and fertility. In the resurrection element there is also a clear parallel with the story of Jesus. (Image source: The Metropolitan Museum)