Project for a Fountain at a Wall
Unknown Maker
The water is pouring from a head in a shell into a basin and into a larger basin below. In front, an ascending way. Below, the scale. Two framing lines. Indication of the walls and clouds.
Credit: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
1850-75
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, white heightening, traces of graphite on off-white laid paper
1901-39-391
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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