Design for a Fountain
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1776
name: label: Artist
content: Charles-François Hutin, French, 1715 - 1776
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal format design for a fountain. The figure of Galatea is shown sitting in a shell, leaning upon her left arm. Three mermen and a naiad support the shell. Another naiad offers pearls and other gifts to Galatea. At left is a dolphin with a child sitting on it and carrying a a lighted torch. At right, merman leaning upon a dolphin blows a horn shell he holds with his left hand, and a swimming naiad. The background is formed at right by a slightly sketched relief. Above are three sections of an iron railing.
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: Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1940-21-16
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 ink, brush and gray watercolor, black chalk, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 17.6 x 44.6 cm (6 15/16 x 17 9/16 in.)