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Unicorn Tapestry, The Met Cloisters, New York, USA

Unicorn purifying water, 1495-1505, detail, depicting the unicorn kneeling to cleanse the water from a fountain, surrounded by animals and birds, in the Unicorn Tapestries Room, housing 7 tapestries depicting the Hunt of the Unicorn, in The Cloisters, a museum specialising in European medieval architecture, sculpture and decorative arts, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan, New York, USA. This tapestry was woven in wool, silk, gilt and silver thread in the Southern Netherlands from a cartoon designed in Paris, France. The Cloisters collection includes Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance works from 12th to 15th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Unicorn purifying water, 1495-1505, detail, depicting the unicorn kneeling to cleanse the water from a fountain, surrounded by animals and birds, in the Unicorn Tapestries Room, housing 7 tapestries depicting the Hunt of the Unicorn, in The Cloisters, a museum specialising in European medieval architecture, sculpture and decorative arts, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan, New York, USA. This tapestry was woven in wool, silk, gilt and silver thread in the Southern Netherlands from a cartoon designed in Paris, France. The Cloisters collection includes Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance works from 12th to 15th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen