Giovanni Guerra Fountain in Grotto with River God ca. 1598 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Giovanni Maggi Fontana della Tartarughe, Piazza Mattei, Rome 1618 etching British Museum |
Gianlorenzo Bernini Study for Fontana del Tritone, Piazza Barberini, Rome ca. 1630-39 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
Anonymous Artist after Giambologna Design for a Triton Fountain ca. 1650-75 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
Giovanni Battista Falda Bernini's Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi Piazza Navona, Rome ca. 1691 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Anonymous Printmaker after Francesco Fanelli Design for a Fountain with a Statue of Venus ca. 1680-1700 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Nicolas Dorigny after Gianlorenzo Bernini Central Figure, Fontana del Moro, Piazza Navona, Rome ca. 1704 etching and engraving Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Edme Bouchardon Design for a Fountain with Hercules subduing Centaurs ca. 1735-40 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
Gilles-Marie Oppenordt Fountain with River God under an Arch before 1742 drawing Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Anonymous Bolognese Artist Design for a Fountain 18th century drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Eugène Constant Fontana della Tartarughe, Piazza Mattei, Rome ca. 1848-52 albumen print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Michele Petagna Fontana della Tartarughe, Piazza Mattei, Rome ca. 1864 albumen silver prints (stereograph) Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
Alphonse Legros Petite Fontaine - Enfant et Masques 1883 drypoint British Museum |
Denman Waldo Ross Fountain in Paris ca. 1890-1910 watercolor Harvard Art Museums |
Carl Van Vechten Fountain in Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn 1938 gelatin silver print Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Peter Fink Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, New York 1964 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
Graham Sutherland Fountain 1965 oil on canvas National Museum of Wales, Cardiff |
Riverlight
My father and I lie down together.
He is dead.
We look up at the stars, the steady sound
Of the wind turning the night like a ceiling fan.
This is our home.
I remember the work in him
Like bitterness in persimmons before a frost.
And I imagine the way he had fear,
The ground turning dark in a rain.
Now he gets up.
And I dream he looks down in my eyes
And watches me die.
– Frank Stanford
(poem published after the author's suicide at age 29 in 1978)