The true story behind Central Park’s iconic Bethesda Fountain in NYC
Her creator was Emma Stebbins, a lesbian sculptor and a wildly successful artist in 19th-century America.
At 41 years old, she boarded a ship to Italy, where she joined what novelist Henry James called the “strange sisterhood of American lady sculptors” who ditched the U.S. for la dolce vita in Rome. There, Stebbins made her name and took up with the stage actress Charlotte Cushman, famed for playing both female and male roles, from Lady Macbeth to Romeo.
She saw the terrace and fountain and sketched a proposal for a statue of an angel with an extended hand, blessing the water and the people who gathered at her feet, inspired by the great fountains of Rome. The Angel celebrated the new Croton Aqueduct, which supplied fresh water to a New York City previously plagued by infectious diseases.
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