Voyages

1889 · 005405 — 1889. Very Good. 2 albumen prints. The first Rouen -- Fontaine de la Grosse Horloge is 255 x 199 mm. on a cardboard mount 297 x 239 mm. Caption printed in photograph in lower right: "54. Rouen_Fontaine de la Grosse horloge." Written in ink at lower edge of image: "Rouen August 25/89." Written in pencil next to photograph on mount: "Printed by the house of T. Herlyison." The fountain was designed by Jean-Pierre Defrance and built next to the famous Gros Horloge in 1743; the bas relief depicts the mythological scene of the river Alpheus and the nymph Arethusa and Cupid flying above them. This photograph includes a man waiting for a bucket to fill at the fountain and a woman carrying a bucket and moving off to the right. The window to the right of the fountain says "Debit de la Fontaine." The second photograph 209 x 270 mm on the other side of the card mount is an albumen print identified along the lower mount edge as only "Rouen." It shows the Fontaine Sainte-Marie built in 1879 with the original lights on either side. In Very Good Condition: lower right-hand corner of Fontaine de la Grosse Horloge slightly creased; both photographs are clean and bright. unknown