Elevation d’une Fontaine
date: label: Date
content: 1755–1768
name: label: After
content: Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801
label: Print Maker
content: A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768
label: Publisher
content: Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau, French, active 1755-1768, d.1782
label: Dedicatee
content: François Franque, French, 1710 – 1894
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for a fountain within an arch, flanked by columns, with a colonnade in the background featuring columns, capitals, friezes, and a coffered arch, with figures sculpted in relief and free-standing sculptures on top of the colonnade. A seated female figure with a lion and anchor at her feet sit on a plinth at the top of the fountain. Below her two mermaids and a merman sit on the edge of the bow of a ship. The bow is decorated with a frieze of acanthus leaf ornament and a laurel leaf garland. Water pours out from the hawse holes onto rocks and reeds below. The title and dedication are lettered below. The plate is signed and dated.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, 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: 1921-6-471-43
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper