George Bernard Shaw Door Knocker
Rosie Banks Danecourt
Category
Metalwork
Date
1947
Materials
Brass
Measurements
6.125 ins (h)2.75 ins (w)
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Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire
NT 1274912
Summary
A brass door-knocker depicting Bernard Shaw with his head in his hands, by his friend Rosie Banks Danecourt. The inscription on the rectangular base reads: ‘G.B. Shaw: Man and Superman.’ Shaw is shown wearing a sombrero, as worn by the Chief in the Sierra Nevada who appears at the start of the Don Juan in Hell dream scene in Act III of Man and Superman. Presented to Shaw by Rosie Banks Danecourt in 1947. A plaster plaque in the Shaw's Corner Collection, also by Banks Danecourt, is possibly a maquette for this door-knocker (1275322.3).
Provenance
The Shaw Collection. The house and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust by George Bernard Shaw in 1950, together with Shaw's photographic archive.
Marks and inscriptions
On rectangular base: inscribed: "G.B.SHAW MAN AND SUPERMAN"
Makers and roles
Rosie Banks Danecourt