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Design for a Fountain for the Palazzo Corsini, Rome, Italy
Ferdinando Fuga, Italian, 1699 - 1781ca. 1743
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
An aedicule (small temple/shrine) with a broken pediment frames a fountain. Water flows from the mouth of a mask into a shell-shaped basin supported by entwined dolphins. Scale below.
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- Title: Design for a Fountain for the Palazzo Corsini, Rome, Italy
- Creator: Ferdinando Fuga, Italian, 1699 - 1781
- Date Created: ca. 1743
- Location Created: Italy
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, traces of graphite on off-white laid paper
- Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
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