Monument to Reza Shah
5x7" / Unframed Print
$32.49
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Monument to Reza Shah
$32.49
Materials
Fine Art Prints
Premium archival matte fine art paper, 200–230 gsm. Smooth, bright white surface with an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging. Printed with archival inks for accurate color and high-contrast reproduction. FSC-certified sustainable paper.
Framed Prints
Solid wood frame, roughly 0.875″ wide, available in light, black, or white. Protected by shatterproof optical-grade acrylic — lighter and safer than glass, and it ships without risk of breakage. Dry-mounted to foam core with a kraft paper dust cover and hanging wire installed, ready to hang out of the box.
Production
Every piece is made to order. Nothing sits in a warehouse — your print is produced after you order it, at the facility closest to your address. That means it reaches you faster, travels less distance, and arrives with a smaller carbon footprint than something shipped from a single central location.
An equestrian monument to Reza Shah in a pen-and-ink style, stippled from the hooves up and left floating on bare white. The Shah sits his horse in military uniform on a tall stone plinth, and the plinth itself is carved in the neo-Achaemenid manner — the Pahlavi style that quoted Persepolis directly to tie the new state to the old empire.
- The equestrian figure in greatcoat and peaked cap, one hoof raised
- Bull capitals set at the corners of the plinth in the Persepolis manner
- A winged disc carved across the frieze beneath the statue
- Four guard figures with spears standing at the base, in Achaemenid robes and fluted headdress
- A relief panel of a crowned figure, and an animal frieze along the lowest step
- Stipple and cross-hatching throughout, pure black on white, no ground and no border
The guards are drawn after the spear-bearers on the Persepolis staircases, popularly called the Immortals. Monuments of this kind were removed from Iranian cities after 1979, which makes the drawing a record of something that is no longer standing.
Perfect for
- Gallery walls of architectural and monument drawings
- Students of twentieth-century Iranian history
- A study or hallway in black and white
- Collectors of Pahlavi-era material