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Hi all,

I have had this image http://img716.imageshack.us/i/lionunicorn.jpg/ on my harddisk for some years and do not remember where I got it from. I found it recently searching my computer for pictures. A friend of mine, who liked it too, suggested to get it in a larger format.

However, I have no idea what the meaning of the picture is - lion and unicorn point to the UK, but why is the unicorn writing and the lion tearing up books? Before I hang something on my walls, I'd like to make sure I understand its meaning. I would greatly appreciate your help finding the artist or guessing the meaning of it. (I also noticed an artists "signature" in the lower left corner, but I can't see it clearly.)

Thank you for your thoughts,
Sturmfalke

Well I ran it through Tineye and got zero hits on the picture, so there goes the most obvious solution. I don't recognize it either.

It looks like it might be a political cartoon... possibly about the UK (from the crowned Lion)

adam_grif wrote:Well I ran it through Tineye and got zero hits on the picture, so there goes the most obvious solution. I don't recognize it either.

Thanks for the effort! I just looked up Tineye - I had no idea such a service existed. I mainly used picture search engines, but "lion and unicorn" is guaranteed to get a huge number of hits, and the picture makes it difficult to narrow them down.

barnest2 wrote:It looks like it might be a political cartoon... possibly about the UK (from the crowned Lion)

Lion and unicorn are the UK's symbols, the lion stands for England, the unicorn stands for Scotland. Some cartoons show them fighting (like in the nursery rhyme), but I can't make any sense of this picture. If it is a historical reference, it eludes me - Scotland creating something, England destroying it?

Lion and unicorn are the UK's symbols, the lion stands for England, the unicorn stands for Scotland. Some cartoons show them fighting (like in the nursery rhyme), but I can't make any sense of this picture. If it is a historical reference, it eludes me - Scotland creating something, England destroying it?

I knew the Unicorn stood for something thanks.
Maybe Scottish legislation that was ignored here? I remember something like that happening a few years back