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Detail of the fountain and the unicorn
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02:14, May 19, 2009 Itzjustdrama (326 bytes) (uploaded a new version of "File:The Hunt of the Unicorn Tapestry 1.jpg": Sharper, better color) (undo)
08:01, March 12, 2007 Peregrine Fisher (332 bytes) (One of the The Hunt of the Unicorn tapestries. It's hundreds of years old, so it can't be copyrighted. No art was added when this picture of it was taken, so it's not a derivative work, and it is still not copyrighted. Source: http://www.uic.edu/de)
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Tapestry series The Hunt of the Unicorn: The Unicorn is Found, c. 1495-1505. The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City