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Maker(s):Frankenstein, Michael
Culture:Austrian (1843 - 1918)
Title:Schoner Brunnen - The Beautiful Fountain
Date Made:ca. 1870's
Type:Photograph
Materials:albumen print
Place Made:Germany
Measurements:mount: 16 x 12 in.; 40.64 x 30.48 cm; image: 9 1/2 x 7 7/16 in.; 24.13 x 18.8913 cm
Accession Number:  SC 1982.38.407
Credit Line:Purchased with Hillyer-Tryon-Mather Fund, with funds given in memory of Nancy Newhall (Nancy Parker, class of 1930) and in honor of Beaumont Newhall, and with funds given in honor of Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
statue of a woman framed by an archway; Well house of Schonbrunn Palace Grounds, originally built by court gardener Steckhoven; replaced in 1771 by a square pavilion designed by Isidor Canevale, court architect; open, semi-circular arches, back arch frames seated sculpture, fountain of Egeria, a Water Nymph (and consort of Numa Pompilius) above a shell basin; vase under right arm from which water flows into basin; left arm holds a cornucopia; arch decorated with sculpted sheaves of water reeds; kneeling bench in front of basin; to left, shelves holding glasses probably for visitors to drink form fountain; forest seen in distance through archway, behind statue

Subjects:
Photography--Printing processes--Albumen

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