2-721-180 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Metal box with lid, c1600, (1881). Etching of a decorated container (for tobacco?) made in the Netherlands, of bell metal, a form of bronze. 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]