Bethesda Fountain - Central Park
by Miriam Danar
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Bethesda Fountain - Central Park
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Miriam Danar
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Photograph - Digital Photograph
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Central Park's Angel of the Waters Bethesda Fountain is one of the largest fountains in New York, measuring twenty-six feet high by ninety-six feet wide. The statue at its center was the only sculpture to have been commissioned as a part of Central Park's original design. This neoclassical sculpture, also known as Angel of the Waters, features an eight-foot bronze angel who stands above four small cherubim representing health, purity, temperance, and peace.
The angel herself carries a lily in one hand while the other remains outstretched, poised in the action of delivering a blessing on the water pouring from around her feet and into the basin at the bottom of the fountain. This is to commemorate the 1842 opening of the Croton Aqueduct, which supplied New York City with fresh water. (from centralpark.com)
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April 20th, 2014
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