Alternative designs for a Britannia fountain (416-417):
416 - AS I.79. Design for a fountain basin, drawn by an unidentified hand. Brown ink over pencil sketching, shaded with grey wash. 313 x 261 mm. Watermark: Strasbourg lily (bottom half only). Endorsed in ink by an early hand: Fountains.
417 - AS I.80. Alternative design for a fountain basin, drawn by a second unidentified draughtsman. The tritons are drawn twice. Pencil, black ink, and white chalk. The sheet is tinted with a grey wash. 449 x 276 mm. Watermark: Strasbourg lily WR (incomplete).
Note to 416-417: Probably intended for Hampton Court, where the central basin of the Great Parterre originally contained a triton fountain (HKW 5.172; Thurley 2003, fig. 217). 416 is from the same hand as 404–405. The design should be compared with the internal decoration of a proposed grotto at Hampton Court (WS 4, pl. 24).
[WS 12, pl. 43; Sekler 1956, 46]