● On view now — 101B Prints & Drawings
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · verified August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Many early engravers used the medium to create motifs for craftsmen. The design for this Gothic fountain calls for the work to be executed in gold or silver and for scented water to spout from the gargoyle heads into the square, carved basins below. Like the great majority of prints by Master W with a Key, this sheet illustrating a design for a fountain is very rare, and only a few impressions are known. Offset on the verso is the faint image of a ship, a subject that inspired eight other engravings.
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Giuseppe Galli Bibiena — Elevation for a Catafalque Surmount
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena — Elevation of a Catafalque: Obelisks
Anonymous, German, 19th century — Design for an Altar
Anonymous, French, 18th century — Design for an Altar
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena — Elevation of a Catafalque: Four Lar
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena — Elevation of a Catafalque, Three Ob
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena — Elevation and Section of the Catafa
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena — Elevation of a Catafalque: Wreathed
Georg Gottfried Winckler|Johann Michael Leüchte — Design for
Thomas Chippendale — Gothic Bookcase, from Chippendale Drawi
Vincents Lerche — Design for the Spire of the Church of Our 
Gian Lorenzo Bernini|Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi — Isolated Vi