Summary

Triton is a mythological Greek sea-god, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. He is the messenger and herald of Amphitrite, and has the upper body of a human and the lower body of a fish.

Triton is used as a subject for statues used in fountains. John Evelyn describes a Triton figure used in a fountain at the Palace of Luxumberg, Paris:

…. having in the center a noble basin of marble near thirty feet in diameter (as I remember), in which a Triton of brass holds a dolphin, that casts a girandola of water near thirty feet high, playing perpetually, the water being conveyed from Arceuil by an aqueduct of stone, built after the old Roman magnificence

 

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