The Forgotten Fountain of Crawford Market Bombay, 1874 Print
An 1874 print of the forgotten fountain of Crawford Market in Bombay (Mumbai). This publication was printed in 1874, the same year the fountain was installed in Crawford Market. In the outer courtyard is the now almost forgotten fountain. Designed by William Emerson. Decorated with intricate scupltures and panels, sculpted by John Lockwood Kipling, who had also designed the friezes at the entrance.
Kipling was the principal of JJ School of Art in Bombay, he was also the father of the famous Rudyard Kipling. The Crawford Market Fountain was known as the Lockwood Kipling Fountain for quite some time. It was believed to be financed by then Bombay’s Parsi industrialist Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney. Everything in the market is now a mess and in complete disrepair. The fountain looks like someone’s home with areas used as a bed, kitchen and place to hang laundry.
Read Crawford Market Fountain, Bombay (Mumbai), by Sir William Emerson.
Did you know: the neglected fountain was insensitively painted with garish multi colored paints. Growth of plants and algae is visible at many sections of the fountain.
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