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| attributed to Benedetto Bordone Fountain 1499 woodcut (illustration to the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by Francesco Colonna, printed by Aldus Manutius) Musée du Louvre |
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| Wendel Dietterlin Fountain with Warrior slaying a Dragon 1598 etching British Museum |
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| Giovanni Maggi Fountain, Piazza di S. Pietro in Vaticano before 1618 etching Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Fontana del Tritone 1642-43 marble Piazza Barberini, Rome |
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| Giovanni Battista Falda Fountain, Piazza Farnese, Rome before 1677 etching Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Edme Bouchardon Design for a Fountain in a Niche ca. 1735 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Gilles-Marie Oppenordt Design for a Fountain with Dolphin and Dragon before 1742 drawing Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Charles-François Hutin Fountain with Nymphs and River God 1764 etching British Museum |
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| Carle Vanloo Design for a Fountain before 1765 drawing British Museum |
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| Hubert Robert Stair and Fountain in the Park of a Roman Villa ca. 1770 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Anonymous Printmaker after Daniel Marot Neptune Fountain at Versailles 18th century etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Claude-Marie Ferrier Glass Fountain in the Crystal Palace, London ca. 1851-52 salted paper print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Jane Martha St John Fontana della Tartarughe, Piazza Mattei, Rome ca. 1856-59 albumen silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Anonymous Photographer Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, New York ca. 1860-90 photograph prints (stereograph) Library of Congress, Washington DC |
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| Popko van Groningen Fountain in Plantage Parklaan, Amsterdam before 1888 wood-engraving, with letterpress Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Alphonse Legros Design for Fountain - Enfant et Poisson ca. 1890-1900 etching British Museum |
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| Eugène Atget Fountain at Versailles ca. 1900 albumen print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Roland Hinton Perry Elk Fountain, Portland, Oregon ca. 1900 bronze sculpture on granite base Library of Congress, Washington DC |
And Later . . .
I take my kaleidoscope off the shelf,
look through the little hole at the end
of the cardboard tube;
I turn and turn and turn and turn,
Letting the crystals shift into strange
and beautiful patterns, letting the pieces fall
wherever they will.
– Jen Bryant (2004)
– Jen Bryant (2004)