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UNIDENTIFIED AUTHOR Monumental luminous fountain...

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UNIDENTIFIED AUTHOR Monumental luminous fountain at the 1889 World's Fair. Vintage photogravure. Published by Edmond Coignet et Cie, engineer-builders, 3, rue des Mathurins, Paris, the company that built the Luminous Fountain of the Exposition (architect Formigé, statuary Coutan, Bechmann, chief engineer of bridges and roads), to be offered to clients. Dedicated in ink "To Monsieur Pellechet, architect, 87-89, rue Saint-Lazare (Avenue du Coq, 7), Paris. 45 x 59 cm". (Jules Pellechet, 1829-1903).