This looks a bit like the previous door-knocker, but this chap is Hercules - I'm guessing, because of the club. There are two lions, for symmetry I presume, whereas Hercules is famous for killing one lion - the Nemean lion. This door is not open to the public, but it was opened for Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews in the TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Brideshead Revisited
This looks a bit like the previous door-knocker, but this chap is Hercules - I'm guessing, because of the club. There are two lions, for symmetry I presume, whereas Hercules is famous for killing one lion - the Nemean lion. This door is not open to the public, but it was opened for Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews in the TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited.
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