2-721-219 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Salutation, book cover, 15th century, (1881). Etching of a gilt metal panel made in Germany, depicting a biblical scene, decorating the wooden cover of a book. 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]