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  1. Credit Line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1937 Accession Number: 37.80.6 Inscription: (center and three corners): A [image of a knot] E [reversed] (unidentified)

  2. Jul 27, 2017 · Tiffany Jow. Jul 27, 2017 1:35PM. The Unicorn is Attacked (from the Unicorn Tapestries), 1495-1505. Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1937. Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Unicorn Tapestries, traditionally known as “The Hunt of the Unicorn,” are widely considered to be among the greatest artworks in existence.

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  4. Credit Line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1937 Accession Number: 37.80.2 Inscription: (on each corner and in center): A [image of a knot] E [reversed] (unidentified) (on red horn): W [backwards E] D H N O H N M E H O M (too fragmentary for interpretation)

  5. May 15, 2013 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1937 (37.80.4) The Unicorn Tapestries tell of the hunt of the unicorn in much the way a stag hunt would have been represented—with hunters and dogs setting off in pursuit, a feverish attempt at escape through a stream, an agonizing climactic fight, and, finally, a ...

  6. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (January 29, 1874 – May 11, 1960) was an American financier and philanthropist. Rockefeller was the fifth child and only son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. He was involved in the development of the vast office complex in Midtown Manhattan known as Rockefeller Center, making him one of the largest ...

  7. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1937 (37.80.5) The common hazel, or Corylus avellana, is an understory tree native to Europe and western Asia and is widely distributed from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean. The English name for the tree is derived from the Anglos-Saxon word haesel.

  8. Museum of Art, Gift of John"D. Rockefeller Jr., 1937 (37.80.1–6) and 1938 (38.51.1, 2) 3. For the opening of The Cloisters in May 1938, the fragments were squared off, hiding some of the original weaving, including part of the unicorn. 4. Detail of the fragment on the left in Figure"1, showing the AE monogram VLOR

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