Rostam at the White Demon's Cave
7x5" / Unframed Print
$32.49
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Rostam at the White Demon's Cave
$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.
The last of Rostam's seven trials, drawn in the language of the Japanese woodblock landscape. Rostam crosses a stone bridge on Rakhsh in scale armor and a red cloak, small against a valley of blue peaks, pine and cypress. High on the right, in the mouth of a cave, the Div-e Sepid sleeps — pale, enormous, and not yet awake.
- Rostam on Rakhsh at the center of the lower half, crossing the first of three bridges
- The White Demon curled in a cave mouth on the right slope
- Snow peaks receding in soft graded washes, in the manner of shin-hanga rather than Edo ukiyo-e
- A river winding the full depth of the picture, drawn in fine ripple lines
- A muted palette of slate blue, sage, cream and ochre, with the red cloak the only warm accent
In Ferdowsi's telling, Kay Kavus and his army march into Mazandaran, are blinded by the Div-e Sepid and taken captive. Rostam rides to free them, and the seventh trial ends with the demon dead and its blood used to restore the king's sight. The Shahnameh was finished around 1010 and runs to some fifty thousand couplets.
Perfect for
- Living rooms and bedrooms wanting a calm, wide landscape
- Collectors of Japanese woodblock prints
- Readers of the Shahnameh and of epic more broadly
- Housewarming and literature-lover gifts