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Unicorns

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  • In the Garden of Eden, while the serpent curls around the tree of knowledge, Eve is about to taste the apple. Coloured etching, 17--.
  • God, as a triangle representing the Trinity, pours light upon the Garden of Eden. Engraving.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • Schadelskeleton mit einem Narvalhn Horn from De unicornu
  • Saint Justina, with a unicorn and a man praying to her. Etching by W. Unger after Moretto of Brescia.
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    Kopfeines Nashorn vogels (skeleton) from De unicornu...

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    Unicorn.

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    Noah and his companions follow the animals into the Ark. Etching.

    | Reference: 15704i
    • Books

    Unicorn : myth and reality / Rüdiger Robert Beer ; translated by Charles M. Stern.

    Beer, Rüdiger Robert. | Date: 1977, ©1972
    • Pictures

    Temperance receives a bit in order to control a camel; below, she restrains a unicorn. Engraving by G. Audran, 1675, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.

    Domenichino, 1581-1641. | Date: 1675 | Reference: 2897459i
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