Project for a Fountain
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Upon a base, partially executed stands a basin upon a foot composed of dolphins with uplifted tails. In the basin kneels a boy with fishtail legs, supporting a vase from which water springs.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1800
- Accession Number
- 1901-39-172
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- ornament
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with gray wash on cream laid paper, lined
- Dimensions
- H x W: 22.3 × 13.8 cm (8 3/4 × 5 7/16 in.)
- made in
- Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1901-39-172
