Sketch for a Fountain in Park, Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786, Graphite, brush and gray watercolor on laid paper, Double-flighted stairs connecting an upper and a lower levels. Fountain consisting, on the upper level, of a basin with high shaft; on the lower, a basin between rocky stones. At the edges, on front, two hermae on pedestals. The upper fountain and the stairs only slightly sketched, upon the pedestals at the lowest end of the balustrades are painted female statues. Two men standing before the fountain, a third mounts the steps.


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