{"id":142,"date":"2015-02-25T23:09:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T18:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/?p=142"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T20:16:46","slug":"a-booke-containing-such-beasts-as-are-most-usefull-for-such-as-practice-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/a-booke-containing-such-beasts-as-are-most-usefull-for-such-as-practice-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Booke Containing such Beasts as are Most Usefull for such as Practice Drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This print of a collection of quadrupeds depicts a unicorn among animals resembling a goat, a  stag, and a boar.  The grouping supports the fact that, during this time, the mythical being was commonly considered as real as any other beast of the animal kingdom.  Sharing similar characteristics with the two-horned beast in the image, this representation of the creature reflects historic descriptions of the land unicorn as a goat-like creature.<\/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\/FourBeasts_olio00000003483m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"747\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/FourBeasts_olio00000003483m.jpg\" alt=\"A Booke Containing such Beasts as are Most Usefull for such as Practice Drawing Francis Barlow, 1664 Engraving Special Collections, Providence Public Library \" class=\"wp-image-143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/FourBeasts_olio00000003483m.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/FourBeasts_olio00000003483m-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/FourBeasts_olio00000003483m-100x125.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/FourBeasts_olio00000003483m-150x187.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/FourBeasts_olio00000003483m-200x249.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/FourBeasts_olio00000003483m-300x374.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/FourBeasts_olio00000003483m-450x560.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A Booke Containing such Beasts as are Most Usefull for such as Practice Drawing<\/em><br>Francis Barlow, 1664<br>Engraving<br>Special Collections, Providence Public Library<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This print of a collection of quadrupeds depicts a unicorn among animals resembling a goat, a stag, and a boar. The grouping supports the fact that, during this time, the mythical being was commonly considered as real as any other beast of the animal kingdom. Sharing similar characteristics with the two-horned beast in the image, <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/a-booke-containing-such-beasts-as-are-most-usefull-for-such-as-practice-drawing\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  A Booke Containing such Beasts as are Most Usefull for such as Practice Drawing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","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=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}