The Shah at Pasargadae
5x7" / Unframed Print
$32.49
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The Shah at Pasargadae
$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 ceremony at the tomb of Cyrus, painted in the manner of a Persian miniature. Mohammad Reza Shah stands at a bank of microphones in dress uniform with Farah Pahlavi beside him in white; ranks of dignitaries crowd both sides of the red carpet, honour guards stand in blocks further back, and a blue runner leads the eye straight up the page to the stepped limestone tomb. Gold cloud scrolls fill a lapis sky, and a tazhib border of vine and rosette frames the whole sheet.
- The tomb of Cyrus on its six steps at the head of the composition, cypresses either side
- Rows of Lion and Sun flags lining the approach
- Officers, ministers and guests drawn individually across the foreground
- Stylized gold clouds against deep blue, in the manner of Safavid illumination
- کوروش! آسوده بخواب، که ما بیداریم in a cartouche along the base
The date is 12 October 1971, the opening of the celebrations marking two and a half thousand years of Persian monarchy. The line in the cartouche is the close of the speech given here: Cyrus, sleep in peace, for we are awake. It is the most quoted sentence of the reign. The celebrations that followed at Persepolis — a tent city, catering flown in from Paris, dozens of heads of state — were the grandest state occasion modern Iran has staged and among the most criticized, and both of those things were true at the time.
Perfect for
- A study, library or office
- Collectors of Pahlavi-era material
- Readers of twentieth-century Iranian history
- Nowruz and milestone gifts