| The Art Journal was published by J.S. Virtue and Co. in London from 1849 until 1912. It was known for its high-quality graphic reproductions. The engraver and original artist were given special mention in the opening pages of each issue. |
| The accompanying article: |
| "Nearly twenty years ago the Coalbrookdale Company received a commission from the Chilian [Chilean] Government for a fountain, to be placed in the great square of the city of Conception, in that republic. The work was executed at a cost, as we have heard, of 5,000 [sterling], and was placed in the International Exhibition of 1862, when a prize was awarded to it. Among those whose attention had been attracted by the fountain was Judge Manockjee Cursetjee, a Parsee gentleman of Bombay, who, desirous of paying final tribute to the memory of his father, Cursetjee Manockjee, had a duplicate of the work cast, and erected in one of the most picturesque quadrants in Bombay, where it serves the double purpose of a fountain and public light. |
| "It consists of an elegant Corinthian column, surmounted by a richly decorated capital, tha abacus of which supports a plinth whereon stands a statue of the deceased gentleman, executed by Mr. John Bell. In the original fountain a statue of Ceres crowns the column; and in the decorative details are some introductions appropriate to Chili, for which others are substituted in the Bombay duplicate. The work, as our engraving shows, forms a fine ornamental as well as useful object where it stands. We have no space to describe in minutely, but a few lines are due to the two gentlemen whose names are associated with this Fountain. |
| "Cursetjee Manockjee, who died in 1845, at the advanced age of eighty-two years, was one of the most notable men of his time in Bombay, both Europeans and natives holding him in high estimation. By the Parsee community he was regarded as their patriarch, having for many years held a very prominent position in their Punchyat, a tribunal for the internal government of the body. His great-grandfather was one of the few who went from Surat to settle in Bombay when the island was transferred from the Portugese to the British Government. |
| "Even in the next generation there were scarcely a dozen people who had any knowledge of the English language; Cursetjee Manockjee however was one of the fortunate few who had acquired it, and he began life as an English writer with Mr. Andrew Ramsay, then in charge of the financial department of Government, and subsequently Governor of Bombay. On the retirement of the latter, Cursetjee Manockjee, his protege, as he was always considered in the Presidency, turned his attention to mercantile pursuits, became a large ship owner, and opened up a trade with Arabia and Bengal: he was also entrusted with some of their important army and navy contracts. His later days were much occupied in the work of improving the domestic habits and customs of the Parsees. The death of this gentlemen caused universale regret in Bombay; a local journal, alluding to it, wrote: 'He was the poor man's father and the rich man's friend; invariably respected by both. His loss is a public one, and the blank it leaves cannot be filled up.'" |
 Go to a color panorama of Bombay in 1895. |
