Alexander Calder’s Unicorn
This is unicorn that Alexander Calder produced for R. Wilbur’s book A Bestiary. The entire book was illustrated by Calder and features some beautiful illustrations of creatures both real and imaginary alongside a selection of poems and quotes about the beasts.
Foure-Footed Beastes
It is sayd that Unicorns above all other creatures, doe reverence Virgines and young Maides, and that many times at the sight of them they growe tame, and come and sleepe beside them, for there is in their nature a certain savor, wherewithall the Unicornes are allured and delighted: for which occasion the Indian and [...]
The Chinese Unicorn
The Chinese Unicorn, or K’Lin, is one of the four animalsof good omen; the others are the Dragon, the Phoenix, and the Tortoise. The Unicorn is the foremost of the four legged animals; it has the body of a Kiun (or deer), the tail of an ox, and the hoofs of a horse; the horn [...]
Jorge Luis Borges’ Unicorn
The first version of the Unicorn is nearly identical with the latest. Four hundred years B.C., the Greek historian and physician Ctesias told that among the kingdoms of India there were very swift wild asses with white coats, purple heads, blue eyes, and in the middle of their foreheads a pointed horn whose base was [...]