Coadministered by Mayor and Council of Chestertown 118 North Cross Street Chestertown Maryland 21620
Coadministered by Chestertown Garden Club Chestertown Maryland
Located Chestertown Park bounded by High, Cross, Park Row & Spring Streets Chestertown Maryland
Date:
Dedicated Aug. 19, 1899
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Maryland survey, 1994.
Image on file.
Kent County News, (Maryland), June 2, 1993, pg. 5A.
Robert Woods (sic) Co/Makers/Phila unsigned Founder's mark appears.
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Summary:
A multitiered fountain with the figure of Hebe on top. Hebe stands with her hair in a bun, wearing a sleeveless, mid-calf length dress, holding a goblet waist-high in her proper left hand and balancing an urn on her shoulder with her proper right hand. The urn is tipped so that water can pour from it. The figure is mounted on a column decorated with leaves. Beneath the column are four swans with wings spread, necks stretched up, beaks open to catch the water which then falls into a scallop shell basin below and flows over the edges. Four lion heads support the scallop shell basin. Below these are scrolls and leaves, ending in four ornamental supports, resting on four large blocks in the bottom basin. There are six decorated supports around the edge of the basin which once held urns. The fountain is painted white.
