2-721-276 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Bookrest, 1540-1580, (1881). Etching of a hinged wooden reading stand, made in Italy in the mid-late 16th century. The carved decoration features a unicorn and birds among stylised foliage. 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]