Design for a Fountain
date: label: Date
content: 1795–1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Low basin surrounded by posts with a bar. Pairs of dolphins blow water into the upper basin. This is supported by a pedestal with mersphinxes at the corners. It is covered by a shall upon which two mermen embrace a shell from which water springs.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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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: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-403
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, brush and gray wash, traces of graphite on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 45 × 30 cm (17 11/16 × 11 13/16 in.)