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Jardin Royal, Paris: showing figures strolling in the garden. Line engraving by J.B. Scotin the younger.

The celebrated boy and swan fountain can be seen in the background, as can the domed roof of the temple

Bagnigge Wells, London: two alluring, fashionably-dressed women, one plucking rosebuds. Mezzotint, 1780.

Hydraulics: pipes, conduits, fountains, etc. Engraving.

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour

The Lichtenstein Palace and gardens, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany: with the Spanish Hospital and Notre Dame de la Mercy Church in the background. Coloured line engraving.

12 unnumbered leaves, 121 pages : engr. frontispiece & illustrations ; (folio)

Nova, et amænior de admirando fontivm genio (ex abditas natvræ clavstris, in orbis lvcem emanante) philosophia ... Perenne flvere ivssa / avctore Iacobo I. W. Dobrzenski ...; opvscvlvm quod non solum curiosis ingenijs ob plurimas & nouas hydraulicas machinas æri delicatissimè incisas voluptatem adfert, sed & philosophos exoticis quibusdam erudit discursibus, & mathematicis campum aperit alias plures, & ingeniosiores excogitandi inuentiones.

Juturna was a nymph of fountains; her temple in Rome was in the Campus Martius (later Largo di Torre Argentina)

1 print : etching ; platemark 13.5 x 20 cm

Seven Corinthian columns from the temple of Juturna, Rome, and the remains of a water fountain. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1756.

The Fallaize Collection.

Photographic portraits of nude women 1.

A young woman, holding a drinking glass, posing naked sitting in front of a fountain in a photographic studio. Photograph, ca.1900.

The "Crystal Palace", built at Hyde Park, was disassembled at the end of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Against both local and national resistance, the building was re-erected at Sydenham in 1854, in an enlarged form. On the night of 30 November 1936, the building caught fire and was entirely consumed, the prehistoric creatures still exist.
The prehistoric creatures were made, of iron, by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins with advice from Professor Richard Owen
The accumulator towers flanking the Palace, which provided the pressure of water neccessary for the fountains, are not shown in this print

1 print : Baxter-process, printed in colours ; image 10.9 x 16 cm

The Crystal Palace from the Great Exhibition, installed at Sydenham: sculptures of prehistoric creatures in the foreground. Colour Baxter-process print by G. Baxter, 1864(?).

The smartly dressed woman, represented by the actress Gigetta Morano, pours water from a glass jug into the basin of a stone fountain. She looks out of the corner of her eye, implying the presence of her secret lover. The fountain is surmounted by the feet of a dancing putto and the water emerges from the mouth of a grotesque, grimacing man carved in relief. On the front of the fountain is an inscription "Acqua miracolosa"
Poster advertising the film 'L'acqua miracolosa', 1914. Plot of the film: Cavaliere Cornelio could be the happiest person in the world. He doesn't live badly, has a pretty wife, his coffers are full – but as for the blessings of children, things are just not working out for him. Dr. Rodolfi, his tenant, therefore suggests that his wife be sent for a cure in a certain watering-place, which has released everyone from their deficiencies. Cornelio does not suspect that Rodolfi and Madame have long been secretly exchanging love letters by means of a rope that runs down from his balcony to hers. That is why he has not the slightest suspicion when the doctor accompanies his patient to the watering-place and certainly has no problem with their abundant promenades through the pleasure gardens. Hardly is Cornelio's wife back before her belly starts to swell. Two sweet children are the result, Cornelio's pride and joy. But that it was less the magic powers of the miracle water that brought Madame to her happy state of motherhood, than a completely different magical fluid, namely Rodolfi's sperm, ought to be clear to everyone by this point, except the Cavaliere himself ... translated from review by Salvatore Baccaro on the Deliriano italiano website, 12 November 2016

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet approximately 200 x 140.5 cm

A married woman attending a health resort as a cover for a love-affair does not drink the curative water but pours it back into the basin of a fountain. Colour lithograph, 1914.

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Jardin Royal, Paris: showing figures strolling in the garden. Line engraving by J.B. Scotin the younger.

Bagnigge Wells, London: two alluring, fashionably-dressed women, one plucking rosebuds. Mezzotint, 1780.

Hydraulics: pipes, conduits, fountains, etc. Engraving.

The Lichtenstein Palace and gardens, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany: with the Spanish Hospital and Notre Dame de la Mercy Church in the background. Coloured line engraving.

Hydraulics: pipes, conduits, fountains, etc. Engraving.

Seven Corinthian columns from the temple of Juturna, Rome, and the remains of a water fountain. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1756.

A young woman, holding a drinking glass, posing naked sitting in front of a fountain in a photographic studio. Photograph, ca.1900.

The Crystal Palace from the Great Exhibition, installed at Sydenham: sculptures of prehistoric creatures in the foreground. Colour Baxter-process print by G. Baxter, 1864(?).

A married woman attending a health resort as a cover for a love-affair does not drink the curative water but pours it back into the basin of a fountain. Colour lithograph, 1914.

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Jardin Royal, Paris: showing figures strolling in the garden. Line engraving by J.B. Scotin the younger.

Bagnigge Wells, London: two alluring, fashionably-dressed women, one plucking rosebuds. Mezzotint, 1780.

Hydraulics: pipes, conduits, fountains, etc. Engraving.

The Lichtenstein Palace and gardens, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany: with the Spanish Hospital and Notre Dame de la Mercy Church in the background. Coloured line engraving.

Hydraulics: pipes, conduits, fountains, etc. Engraving.

Seven Corinthian columns from the temple of Juturna, Rome, and the remains of a water fountain. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1756.

A young woman, holding a drinking glass, posing naked sitting in front of a fountain in a photographic studio. Photograph, ca.1900.

The Crystal Palace from the Great Exhibition, installed at Sydenham: sculptures of prehistoric creatures in the foreground. Colour Baxter-process print by G. Baxter, 1864(?).

A married woman attending a health resort as a cover for a love-affair does not drink the curative water but pours it back into the basin of a fountain. Colour lithograph, 1914.

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