Design for a Fountain in a Park
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1780
name: label: Artist
content: De Crenice, French
label: Dedicatee
content: Louis-Basile de Bernage, French, 1691 – 1767
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Square with trees and figures represented out of scale with the gigantic fountain. It has a hexagonal basin. The water pours from an obelisk in the center and from the jars of pairs of stream gods and goddesses who crouch upon obliquely disposed pedestal rising from a circle of boulders.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1911-28-37
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Mount: 33 × 43.8 cm (13 in. × 17 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: 26.8 × 37.3 cm (10 9/16 × 14 11/16 in.)