{"id":213,"date":"2015-02-26T02:05:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/?p=213"},"modified":"2025-05-22T14:40:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:40:34","slug":"213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/213\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unicorn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather than the traditional contents of a bestiary, this modern book includes modern American sculptor Alexander Calder&#8217;s sketches of animals, paired with quotes from both contemporary and historic sources about each beast. This entry for unicorn illustrated the quote from Jacobean playwright and poet George Chapman&#8217;s <em>Bussy D&#8217;Ambois<\/em>, which tells the story of a jeweler who was attacked by a unicorn for attempting to take its valuable horn. Quotes on the opposing page range from Edward Topsell to 20th century mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/olio00000003501Bestiary-cover-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"803\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/olio00000003501Bestiary-cover-1.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;The Unicorn&quot; A Bestiary Richard Wilbur (author) Alexander Calder (illustrator) New York: Spiral Press for Pantheon Books, 1955 Special Collections, Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design\" class=\"wp-image-390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/olio00000003501Bestiary-cover-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/olio00000003501Bestiary-cover-1-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/olio00000003501Bestiary-cover-1-100x134.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/olio00000003501Bestiary-cover-1-150x201.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/olio00000003501Bestiary-cover-1-200x268.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/olio00000003501Bestiary-cover-1-300x402.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/olio00000003501Bestiary-cover-1-450x602.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;The Unicorn&#8221;<br><em>A Bestiary<\/em><br>Richard Wilbur (author)<br>Alexander Calder (illustrator)<br>New York: Spiral Press for Pantheon Books, 1955<br>Special Collections, Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than the traditional contents of a bestiary, this modern book includes modern American sculptor Alexander Calder&#8217;s sketches of animals, paired with quotes from both contemporary and historic sources about each beast. This entry for unicorn illustrated the quote from Jacobean playwright and poet George Chapman&#8217;s Bussy D&#8217;Ambois, which tells the story of a jeweler <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/213\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The Unicorn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","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=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}