A zinc fountain group of a boy and a swan after the antique, the boy shown standing conceling his eyes from the sun with his left hand, his right hand around the neck of a swan shown stretching and looking upwards with its wings unfurled. Set on a plain squared base. The group was original bronzed.

The group is a replica of Kalide's famous life size bronze fountain group executed in 1836 for the gardens at Pfaueninsel in Berlin. It was cast by the Berlin founders M. Geiss and it was exhibited together with zinc reproductions of statues after the antique - several of these statues were acquired by Prince Albert and Queen Victoria durign the 1850s for the gardens at Osborne House - in the 1851 London Great Exhibition. The group figures in the Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition, 1851 (p 235).