TURTLE FOUNTAIN CONTINUED
George
Booth was in Rome in February of 1924 and ordered a copy of the fountain for
Cranbrook. The fountain arrived from Naples in 1924 in 18 crates weighing 10
tons and was installed within the year.
There
are at least two other known copies of this fountain in the US, one on Nob Hill
in San Francisco, California and one in the Ringling Museum in Sarasota,
Florida.