
Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise 1519)
A design for a 'Heron's Fountain' c.1511-13
RCIN 912691
A 'Heron's Fountain' designed as a vase placed on top of a column. On the urn kneels a naked child, blowing through a conch water which falls into a basin raised on a smaller column, standing on the vase. The lower left corner has been irregularly cut.