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This exhibit offers a commentary on some of the questions of power, privacy, and female representation that arise from the Carrie Brown Bajnotti Memorial Fountain.

Commissioned in 1899, erected in 1901, and unveiled in 1902, the Carrie Brown Bajnotti Memorial Fountain was given to the city of Providence by Count Paul Bajnotti in memory of his late wife. Caroline Mathilde Brown Bajnotti was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the granddaughter of Brown University’s namesake benefactor, Nicholas Brown II. She married Count Paul Bajnotti, a Foreign Affairs officer from Turin, Italy, in 1876, and the couple spent the majority of their married life in Italy until Carrie Brown Bajnotti’s death in 1896. To memorialize his wife’s death, Count Bajnotti commissioned three monuments in Providence: Carrie Brown Bajnotti Fountain (Burnside Park), Carrie Tower (Brown University), and the Pancratiast Statue (Roger Williams Park).