Monument to Reza Shah
Unframed Print / 5x7"
Sale price
$22.74
Regular price
$32.49
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Monument to Reza Shah
Sale price
$22.74
Regular price
$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
Free shipping worldwide, arrives in 5–10 business days.
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.
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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