Hittorff had seen the fountains in Piazza San Pietro on a visit to Rome in the 1820s.  

The faces of a triton and a nereid in the fontaine des Mers. Designed by Jacques Ignace Hittorff, his inspiration was the twin fountains in Piazza San Pietro in Rome, which also are placed on either side of an obelisk.

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