Located on the lawn outside the Allen Memorial Art Museum, this sculpture of a putto holding a dolphin is an early 20th-century replica of Andrea del Verrocchio’s late 15th-century bronze fountain in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. In 1931, Henry J. Haskell (OC 1896) gave the fountain to Oberlin College in memory of his wife Katharine Wright Haskell (OC 1898).
This sketch is on view in the exhibition Italy on Paper, on display in the Ripin Print Gallery through July 29.
Image:
(left) William Hoskins Brown (American, 1910-1976)
Verrocchio Fountain in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, ca. 1925
Pencil
Museum Purchase Fund, 1936.47
(right) Recent color photo of the Haskell Fountain
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