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The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 26 (1991)

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 26

"Presents to Princes: A Bestiary of Strange and Wondrous Beasts, Once Known, for a Time Forgotten, and Rediscovered"

Nickel, Helmut

1991

10 pages

This title is out of print.

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About the authors

Helmut Nickel

Met Art in Publication

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries), Wool warp with wool, silk, silver, and gilt wefts, French (cartoon)/South Netherlandish (woven) — The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
French (cartoon)/South Netherlandish (woven)
1495–1505

The Rhinoceros, Albrecht Dürer German, Chiaroscuro woodcut with tone block in printed in light olive green — The Rhinoceros
Albrecht Dürer
Willem Jansz Blaeu
after 1620

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