The Shah at Pasargadae
Unframed Print / 5x7"
Sale price
$22.74
Regular price
$32.49
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The Shah at Pasargadae
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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Every piece is made to order just for you, so we can't accept returns for change of mind. But you're fully covered: if your piece arrives damaged, defective, or isn't what you ordered, we'll replace it free or refund you in full — and you won't need to ship it back.
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