Drawing, Sketch for a Fountain in Park, 1740 (CH 18125795)
Summary
Double-flighted stairs connecting an upper and a lower levels. Fountain consisting, on the upper level, of a basin with high shaft; on the lower, a basin between rocky stones. At the edges, on front, two hermae on pedestals. The upper fountain and the stairs only slightly sketched, upon the pedestals at the lowest end of the balustrades are painted female statues. Two men standing before the fountain, a third mounts the steps. In the foreground, right and left trees and bushes.
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1740 works
carlo marchionni
drawings from italy in the cooper hewitt smithsonian design museum
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cooper hewitt smithsonian design museum
Date
1740
Source
Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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