'Figure du Pirassoipi, espece de Licorne d'Italie' Finish:Stretched (1813-1883)

(1813-1883)

Plate 5 from De organis

Since Prince Albert's death some ten years earlier

Sometimes termed 'Lichtenberg figures'

'Figure du Pirassoipi, espece de Licorne d'Italie' Finish:Stretched (1813-1883)Figure of a Pirassoipi, the twin horned unicorn, shown within a landscape in which the mythological beast is being hunted and skinned. Illustration from Discours d'Ambroise Pare a scavoir, de la mumie, de la licorne, des venins, et de la peste, avec une table des plus notables matieres contenues esdit discours (chez Gabriel Buon, Paris, 1582), f. 27. Ambroise Par (c. 1510 1590) was a French barber surgeon and anatomist who served several Kings of