Rouen: Fontaine de la Crosse (Rouen: The La Crosse Fountain)
Bonington created this image for a series titled "Remains and Fragments of Architecture of the Middle Ages." The fifteenth-century fountain is so named after a crosier that once stood nearby in a house belonging to the monks of Notre Dame de l'Isle Dieu in the Rue de l'Hopital.
Artwork Details
- Title: Rouen: Fontaine de la Crosse (Rouen: The La Crosse Fountain)
- Series/Portfolio: Restes et Fragmens d'Architecture du Moyen Age
- Artist: Richard Parkes Bonington (British, Arnold, Nottinghamshire 1802–1828 London)
- Printer: Feillet (French, active 1822–28)
- Date: 1827
- Medium: Lithograph; first (?) state of two
- Dimensions: Sheet: 13 3/16 × 9 15/16 in. (33.5 × 25.2 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of W. G. Russell Allen, 1923
- Object Number: 23.108.1
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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