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  2. Hylas and the Nymphs (painting) - Wikipedia

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    Hylas and the Nymphs is an 1896 oil painting by John William Waterhouse.The painting depicts a moment from the Greek and Roman legend of the tragic youth Hylas, based on accounts by Ovid and other ancient writers, in which the enraptured Hylas is abducted by Naiads (female water nymphs) while seeking drinking water.

  3. William Rush and His Model - Wikipedia

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    These works depict the American wood sculptor William Rush in 1808, carving his statue Water Nymph and Bittern for a fountain at Philadelphia's first waterworks. The water nymph is an allegorical figure representing the Schuylkill River , which provided the city's drinking water, and on her shoulder is a bittern , a native waterbird related to ...

  4. Hylas - Wikipedia

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    Hylas and nymphs from a mosaic in Roman Gaul (3rd century). In classical mythology, Hylas (Ancient Greek: Ὕλας, romanized: Hýlas) was a youth who served Heracles (Roman Hercules) as companion and servant.

  5. Nymph and Fawn - Wikipedia

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    Nymph and Fawn is located near a pond that is part of the original Oldfields Ravine Garden, an informal garden that was designed by Percival Gallagher in 1920. [5] This landscaping project was part of a larger effort by the Olmsted Brothers landscape design firm to visually transform the Oldfields grounds at the time. [6]

  6. Naiad - Wikipedia

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    The nymph Salmacis raped Hermaphroditus and fused with him when he tried to escape. The water nymph associated with particular springs was known all through Europe in places with no direct connection with Greece, surviving in the Celtic wells of northwest Europe that have been rededicated to Saints, and in the medieval Melusine .

  7. Category:Paintings of nymphs - Wikipedia

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  8. Orseis - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Orseïs (/ ɔːr s iː ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Ὀρσηΐς, derived from ὄρσω - orsô, "to rouse, stir, awaken, excite or arise") was the water-nymph of a spring in Thessalia, Greece, and the mythical ancestor of the Greeks.

  9. Potamides - Wikipedia

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    Hence, as water is a necessity to all the creation, the water nymphs, along with the gods Dionysus and Demeter, were also worshiped as providing life and blessings to all existing beings and this attribute is manifested by a diversity of epithets. [2] Potamides in a river. Nymphes au bain by Auguste G. L. Desnoyers, 1830.