1950-1970 Colour etching and aquatint on white wove paper
554 x 429 mm. Purchase: Bear Lane Gallery 1960-1965 Funding support: Gulbenkian Foundation
Number 3 of an edition of 50. The Fountain of the Four Rivers was designed by Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) and built between 1648 and 1651. It was commissioned by Pope Innocent X to commemorate a hydro engineering scheme which redirected water from the Acqua Vergine to the front of Palazzo Pamphili, the Pope's palace
View of the Fountain of the Four Rivers, Piazza Navona, Rome; foreground, piazza with, on the left, three seated figures; middleground, a large sculpted fountain with a central obelisk and figures representing the rivers, from left to right, Plate, Danube and Ganges; background, four storey houses. Printed in black, yellow and orange
