Marco Marchetti Design for a Fountain before 1588 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
Gianlorenzo Bernini Study for a Fountain with Tritons ca. 1670 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin |
Giovanni Battista Falda Bernini's Fountain of the Moor, Piazza Navona, Rome 1691 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Johann Georg Platzer Fountain Scene before a Palace ca. 1730-35 oil on copper Skokloster Castle, Sweden |
Edme Bouchardon Design for a Fountain with Sea Creatures ca. 1738 drawing Musée du Louvre |
Francesco Fontebasso Design for a Fountain with Neptune and his Chariot ca. 1740-60 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Anonymous Italian Artist Capriccio with Fountain 18th century drawing Harvard Art Museums |
Anonymous French Artist Design for a Fountain 18th century drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Sarah Fairchild Fountain in Union Park, New York ca. 1845 watercolor and gouache on paper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Alphonse Legros Petite Fontaine - Enfants et Masques ca. 1883 watercolor on paper (print study) British Museum |
Isaiah West Taber Temporary Allegorical Fountain California Midwinter International Exposition 1894 gelatin silver print Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
Anonymous Printmaker Fontaine projetée à Rome ca. 1900 lithograph Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva Ancient "Horse Tamer" Sculpture Groups with Fountain, Piazza del Quirinale, Rome 1911 watercolor and gouache Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Rudolph Ruzicka Bernini's Fontana del Tritone, Piazza Barberini, Rome 1915 woodcut Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
Carl Van Vechten Fountain in the Alhambra, Granada 1935 gelatin silver print Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Perkins Harnly and Nicholas Zupa Conservatory Fountain ca. 1938 watercolor on paper National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Joseph Cornell Untitled (Yellow Sand Fountain) ca. 1950-55 glass, wood, paper, sand Art Institute of Chicago |
Sand Picture
I will draw on the sand. The slender tip
Of my parasol shall draw on the sand
The curve of your cheek and your lower lip,
The spidery web of your hand.
I will draw on the sand. Each line shall tell,
To the passer-by – each curve shall make him see –
How ugly you are. If I draw it well
It may be plainer to me.
– Marion Strobel (1926)