Fountains, Splash and Spectacle

https://www-4.collection.cooperhewitt.org/exhibitions/35350235/

Fountains, Splash and Spectacle

Fountains, Splash and Spectacle

https://www-4.collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18654481/

Drawing, Elevation of the Maritime Fountain, for the Place de la Concorde, Paris

Designed by Jacques Ignace Hittorff
pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, highlighted with white gouache on paper
Museum purchase from Sarah Cooper-Hewitt and Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Funds and through gift of Lucy Work Hewitt

architecture
interior
figures
water
sprouting
dolphins
fountains
Paris
urban dwellers
clients
swans
Place de la Concorde
caps
basins