The fountain : with jets of new meanings
The Fountain, published in Boston and New York in 1870 by Andrew Jackson Davis, is a spiritualist work whose title and subject mark it for readers of that movement. Its woodcut pictures are small rural scenes: a pair of figures seated beneath a broad tree, boys beside a bent tree with a hat and a fallen log, a foal and a figure by a fence with scattered tools, and two men splitting wood at a riverbank. A designer might borrow their plain engraved line, rustic outdoor settings, and the way single figures sit inside landscape.
