Street art · Paris
Photo: Martin Robson from Brighton, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0
Tucked beneath leafy plane trees, this cast-iron Wallace fountain…
By Charles-Auguste Lebourg
Tucked beneath leafy plane trees, this cast-iron Wallace fountain glows verdigris-green as four caryatids hold up a domed cap — a quiet relic of 1870s Paris, when Richard Wallace gifted the city free drinking water and civic grace.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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