Sketch for a Fountain in Park
date: label: Date
content: 1740
name: label: Artist
content: Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: 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.
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: 1901-39-404
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, brush and gray watercolor on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 48.5 x 35.4 cm (19 1/8 x 13 15/16 in.)