House and Garden 
THE FOUNTAIN AT GEORGIAN COURT 
Executed by Air. J. Alassey Rhind for George J. Gould , Esy. 
flowers; he has designed flights of steps which 
suggest the Villa d’Este, and are yet in per¬ 
fect harmony with the English landscape; 
and has placed a circular seat just where it 
ought to be, under the shadow of the spread¬ 
ing trees. Here, too, he has designed a co¬ 
lossal fountain representing nymphs drink¬ 
ing at the fountain of love. This fountain 
is remarkable for its color and gives an op¬ 
portunity of gaining an effect by contrasting 
metals and marble. The figures are of green 
bronze and stand on a shell of purple Verona 
marble which is placed in a reservoir sixty 
feet across, all lined with blue mosaic. At 
Blenheim Palace there is a fountain which 
Mr. Story designed for the Duke of Marl¬ 
borough, which has a figure of Victory in 
golden bronze with green bronze draperies, 
holding high in air a crown from which the 
water sprinkles down into a basin of yellow 
Siena marble. This basin is supported by 
green bronze dolphins with figures of nymphs 
and cupids sporting round, and its rim is hid¬ 
den by carefully kept turf over which the water 
laps. In the original design, the basin was 
to have been lined with pale blue mosaic. 
It is, however, at Mr. Leopold de Roths¬ 
child’s place, “ Ascott Wing,” that two of 
the finest examples of Mr. Story’s designs 
of fountains are to be found. 
I he larger represents The Triumph of 
Galatea. The nymph and the water-turtle 
on which she stands are of dark bronze, her 
drapery is green bronze and the shell on 
which the turtle is placed is composed of one 
splendid piece of yellow Siena marble. This 
shell, especially in its reflection in the water, 
rather resembles the prow of a gondola. The 
whole composition is full of breezy motion ; 
the bronze sea-horses which draw the shell 
rear and plunge in the water, the young 
Triton is grasping the broken reins which they 
have snapped in their impatience, the amorini 
behind the nymph urge on the horses with 
arms uplifted and countenances expressive 
of laughter and mischief. Galatea alone, in a 
pose ot classic grace, is quite calm and un¬ 
moved in the midst of all this tumult, which is 
increased by the splashing of the water spout¬ 
ing from the sea-horses’ nostrils and from the 
water-turtle’s mouth and from the cascade 
which pours over the ribbed edge of the shell. 
The smaller fountain at “Ascott Wing” is 
composed of two yellow Siena marble tazze, 
the lower of which is lined with rainbow- 
hued, tinted mosaic and is supported by 
four twisted bronze dolphins. In this larger 
basin stands a sheaf of green bronze bulrushes 
with golden tips among some golden acanthus 
leaves. It is confined by a golden snake 
and supports the upper tazza on which a 
winged figure of Iris is poised on one foot 
with a gold-tipped arrow in her outstretched 
hand. The quatrefoil shape of the tazza is 
repeated in the flower-beds which surround 
the fountain and so forms part of the design. 
