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Artist and engraver Charles Hutin French
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Plate 4 of a series of designs of fountains. This design shows a rock face topped by a rococo cartouche. From an inscribed tablet on the rock face spouts water. On the left side of the rock is a woman, with a paddle in her right hand, leaning on a jar spouting water. On the left side is a merman blowing into a conch spouting water.
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Title: Fountains, Plate 4
Artist and engraver:
Charles Hutin (French, Paris 1715–1776 Dresden)
Date: 1764
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 6 9/16 in. (20.6 × 16.7 cm)
Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number: 53.600.39(4)
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