{"id":121,"date":"2015-02-25T21:38:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T16:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/?p=121"},"modified":"2025-05-22T14:43:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:43:42","slug":"peche-au-narwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/peche-au-narwal\/","title":{"rendered":"P\u00e8che au Narwal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Les Monstres Marins<\/em>, or Sea Monsters, is an exploration of the truths and legends of various sea creatures.  Landrin explains that the word &#8220;monster&#8221; does not imply deformity, but rather the evocation of surprise and the stimulation of one\u2019s imagination (pg. 4).  A segment of this text is devoted to the narwhal.  Landrin illustrates this chapter with this historic representation of the sea unicorn, reproduced from Pierre de la Martiniere&#8217;s engraving from 1661.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/MonstresMarins_olio00000003486m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/MonstresMarins_olio00000003486m.jpg\" alt=\"Plate 31 - P\u00e8che au narwal. (Fac-simile d'une gravure de la Martini\u00e8re) Les Monstres Marins Armand Landrin Paris: Hachette et Cie, 1870 Engraving Special Collections, Providence Athenaeum\" class=\"wp-image-122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/MonstresMarins_olio00000003486m.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/MonstresMarins_olio00000003486m-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/MonstresMarins_olio00000003486m-100x95.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/MonstresMarins_olio00000003486m-150x142.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/MonstresMarins_olio00000003486m-200x190.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/MonstresMarins_olio00000003486m-450x427.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Plate 31 &#8211; P\u00e8che au narwal. (Fac-simile d&#8217;une gravure de la Martini\u00e8re)<br><em>Les Monstres Marins<\/em><br>Armand Landrin<br>Paris: Hachette et Cie, 1870<br>Engraving<br>Special Collections, Providence Athenaeum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Monstres Marins, or Sea Monsters, is an exploration of the truths and legends of various sea creatures. Landrin explains that the word &#8220;monster&#8221; does not imply deformity, but rather the evocation of surprise and the stimulation of one\u2019s imagination (pg. 4). A segment of this text is devoted to the narwhal. Landrin illustrates this <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/peche-au-narwal\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  P\u00e8che au Narwal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}