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Italy - Siena - Fontebranda FountainFontebranda is the oldest and the most famous of the numerous fountains in Siena and also the richest in water. Besides quenching the thirst of the city
Fountain of Louis XII at Blois, FranceFountain of Louis XII (early 16th century) at Blois, France Date: 1903
Nuremberg, Germany - Gansemannchen FountainNuremberg, Germany - The unusual Gansemannchen (The Goose Man) Fountain, featuring a little bronze statueby Giovanni Bologna of a rustic type holding two geese. Date: circa 1910s
Mission RuinsThe ruins of the Mission at San Juan Capistrano, southern California, U.S.A. badly damaged by an earthquake. Date: 1960s
21st birthday card with garden and fountainA 21st birthday card showing a beautiful garden with a fountain at the centre. Date: 1936
Feet=Washing FountainThe feet washing fountain near the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel. Date: 1960s
Letter-writing at ChristmasColour illustration from an advertisement for Onoto self-filling safety fountain pen, depicting an Edwardian Christmas scene with a lady in the foreground sitting
Montjuic Fountains, Barcelona, Spain - built for the 1929 Internation Exposition (World Fair). The Fountains lead up the Montjuic Hill toward the Palau Nacional. Date: 1929
Neuer Markt - Vienna, Austria Date: circa 1930s
Monument on Park Lane, London Date: circa 1900
Tunis, Tunisia - A FountainTunis, Tunisia - An Arab Fountain Date: circa 1910s
Trafalgar Square TreeThe Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, the traditional gift of the people of Norway to the people of England after World War Two. Date: 1960s
Mission BellsBells of the Mission at San Juan Capistrano (seen from the Sacred Garden), Southern California, U.S.A. Date: 1960s
Casa di Tiziano, Italy - Pieve di CadoreCasa di Tiziano (The House of Titian - his supposed birthplace) - Pieve di Cadore, Italy. Date: circa 1910s
Advertisement for Swan PenAn advertisement for the Swan fountain pen, as recommended by a rather serious-looking young man: " We are bosom friends my Swan pen and I". Date: 1913
Beirut, Lebanon - Place des Canons Date: circa 1905
Fountain FunTwo girls wearing bathing caps, splashing around in a fountain. Date: 1930s
Munchausen SculptureSplendid fountain sculpture of Baron Munchausen on his horse which has been cut in two in one of Raspes fictional tales. Date: 1930s
Regents Park FountainThe fine fountain in Queen Marys Gardens, Regents Park, London, England. Date: 1950s
Wisley FountainThe fountain and water lilies on the lake at Wisley gardens, Surrey, England. Date: 1981
Trafalgar Square SceneTrafalgar Square, London, looking towards St. Martins-in -the-Fields, that lovely church designed by Gibbs. Africa House is on the right, obscured by a fountain. Date: 1930s
Fountain Row - not in the grounds of a mansion in the heart of the countryside, but on the Roof Garden at Derry and Toms, Kensington High Street, central London. Date: 1950s
Trafalgar Square DuskThe fountain in Trafalgar Square, London, floodlit at dusk. Date: 1960s
Interior of the Ulu Mosque, Bursa, Turkey. Date: circa 1950s
Fountain of the Written Stone, Cordova, SpainFountain of the Written Stone, Cordova, Andalusia, Spain Date: circa 1910s
Elishas Fountain - PalestineElishas Fountain - which supplied natural fresh spring water to Jericho and which is mentioned in the Bible in II Kings, chapter ii, 19-22- as " the waters which Elisha healed"
View of the lake, Weston Park, Sheffield, UKView of the lake at Weston Park, a public park in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK. Date: early 20th century
Court of Fountains - Coney IslandCourt of Fountains, Luna Park - Coney Island, New York Date: circa 1910s
1940 Golden Gate International ExhibitionCourt of the Seven Seas - 1940 Golden Gate International Exhibition, San Francisco, USA - the Expotition was held on an artificial island Treasure Island, in the San Francisco Bay. Date: 1940
Initiation CeremonyThe recipient is lead to the chamber of caverns and told to stab the man in the cave after having drunk from the fountain of life
India - Madras - A Public Fountain Date: circa 1910
Gruyeres, Switzerland in the upper valley of the Saane river, showing women washing clothes and linen in the fountain. Date: circa 1920s
Annexation of Crete by Great PowersAlthough much of modern Greece had been independent since the 1820s, Crete remained in Ottoman hands. A Greek force arrived to annex the island in 1897 and the Great Powers acted
Festival of Britain and Fun Fair, with Danish royal visitorsViews of the Festival of Britain (South Bank) and Fun Fair (Battersea). Top left is the boating pond with a cardboard set suggesting English village buildings
Dieppe, France - La Place du Puits-Sale and the Rue de la Barre Date: circa 1910s
Fountains spouting at the Festival of Britain, LondonView of fountains spouting at the Festival of Britain exhibition on the South Bank, London, near the Sea and Ships Pavilion, with Big Ben in the background. early 1951
Stone Fountain - Loguivy-Lannion, BrittanyStone Fountain in the cemetery at Loguivy-Lannion, Brittany, France Date: circa 1910s
Budapest - The National Museum (the earliest known Hungarian Picture Postcard! Date: 1896
Cooling off in Trafalgar SquareTwo little girls cool off during a heat in the fountains of Trafalgar Square. Date: 1929
Peterhof Palace and Garden, St Petersburg, RussiaPeterhof Palace and Garden with gold statues and fountains in St. Petersburg, Russia circa 2008
The Zwinger Palace in Dresden, Germany circa 2008
Moroccan Moorish Market (rather a folly/fraud of an image, as it depicts an Ottoman Fountain in Morocco, even though the Ottoman Empire never stretched as far as Morocco....!). Date: circa 1910s
Peterhof - The Imperial Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia Date: circa 1903
Palace of Versailles, FranceThe Palace of Versailles, France Date: 1861
Huy, Belgium - The FountainHuy, Belgium - the old fountain Li Bassinia (combination of work from the 15th and 18th centuries). Date: circa 1910s
Israel - Nazareth - Fountain of the Virgin Date: circa 1910s
Leipzig - Rider in the VolkerschlachtdenkmalThe Milkmaids Fountain (Magdebrunnen) in Rossplatz, Leipzig, Germany. Date: circa 1910s
Val d Ossau Women at the fountainVal d Ossau Women collect drinking water at the village fountain. Date: circa 1910s