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| Giambologna River Gods on the Fountain of Oceanus 1576 marble Giardino di Boboli, Florence |
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| Giambologna River Gods on the Fountain of Oceanus 1576 marble Giardino di Boboli, Florence |
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| Paris Bordone Young Man drying himself at a Fountain ca. 1530-40 oil on canvas (cut down from larger work) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Abraham van Diepenbeeck Fountain of Elijah before 1675 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Anonymous Dutch Printmaker Bernini's Fontana del Tritone, Piazza Barberini, Rome ca. 1675-1700 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Gabriel Huquier after Edme Bouchardon La Fontaine des Graces 1737 etching British Museum |
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| François-Antoine Aveline after Jean Mondon Design for a Rococo Fountain before 1762 etching Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles-Louis Clérisseau Fountain in a Courtyard (capriccio of antique fragments) ca. 1768 drawing, with watercolor National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Hubert Robert Fountain in a Park ca. 1770-75 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey Frozen Fountain, Place du Château d’Eau, Paris 1841-42 daguerreotype Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| William Parrott The Fountain, Port of Genoa 1855 oil on canvas Touchstone Rochdale, Lancashire |
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| Robert Macpherson Fontana della Tartarughe, Piazza Mattei, Rome ca. 1857 albumen print Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Friedrich Paul Nerly Fountain, Piazza di S. Pietro in Vaticano ca. 1860 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Anonymous Photographer Bernini's Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, Piazza Navona, Rome ca. 1870-80 albumen silver print Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Gaston Latouche Fountain with Swans ca. 1890 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| John Sloan Throbbing Fountain, Madison Square 1907 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Alice Maud Fanner The Fountain, Hampton Court ca. 1917 oil on canvas (for reproduction as a poster) London Transport Museum |
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| Sydney Vacher The Great Fountain, Viterbo ca. 1921 drypoint British Museum |
from Courtship
My new job is to keep the dog
entertained, this is OK – snow tunnels,
balls, wood to chew, extracting items –
balls, socks, hats, pencils,
good-smelling bread knife,
I forget to feed the fire and it dwindles,
forget to turn on the front porch light,
it remains dark on the stoop.
In the Great Grandmother's country
stolen things are retrieved, they say
the dog comes back for its bone,
the ship its timber – jaggedy, dark around
bolt holes, rotted, but now dry as kindling.
The door for its hinges. But then
the cow and tree? It's a puzzle.
– Talvikki Ansel (2005)