2-721-277 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Bronze door knocker, c1550-1600, (1881). Etching of a door knocker made in Italy in the second half of 16th century. It is in the form of two stylised dolphins, flanking a female figure above a scallop shell. From "The South Kensington Museum", a book of engraved illustrations, with descriptions, of the works of art in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (formerly known as the South Kensington Museum). [Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1881]