Английская Википедия:Henry Probasco
Henry Probasco (4 July 1820 in Newtown, Connecticut – 25 October 1902) was an American hardware magnate noted for the Tyler Davidson Fountain, Probasco Fountain and the Henry Probasco House.[1] He had an interest in art and was selected as a "centennial commissioner" from Ohio.[2]
Probasco made his fortune as a hardware merchant, selling his business in 1866. He then traveled to Europe and commissioned the Royal Bavarian Foundry in Munich to create the 45-foot-high bronze fountain named for his business partner and brother-in-law, Tyler Davidson. He also attended the Universal Exposition of 1867 in Paris where he made an unprecedented bid of 150,000 francs for Meissonier's Friedland.[3]
Probasco’s rare book collection was purchased by the Newberry Library. The collection, “some 2,500 volumes purchased for $52,924, included incunabula, Shakespeare folios, Grolier bindings, rare Bibles (among them the King James, first edition), ten early editions of Homer, nine of Dante, and eight of Horace, to mention only a few special works,” was the basis of what would become the library’s major rare book collection.[4]
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