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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 the heron. Hence, these Eakins works are also known as William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River .
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.
Bronze casting of Rush's allegory of the Schuylkill River, now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art Fourth of July Celebration in Centre Square by John Lewis Krimmel in 1812, now at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Rush's Water Nymph and Bittern (1809) is the fountain statue at center.
Other nymphs included the Hesperides (evening nymphs), the Hyades (rain nymphs), and the Pleiades (companions of Artemis). Nymphs featured in classic works of art , literature , and mythology . They are often attendants of goddesses and frequently occur in myths with a love motif, being the lovers of heroes and other deities. [ 4 ]
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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 .
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. His abduction by water nymphs was a theme of ancient art, and has been an enduring subject for Western art in the classical tradition.
The children born to her will be imparted with human souls as well. For this reason, the Undines (also called Nymphs) yearn to marry a human husband. [20] [14] [19] If a man has an Undine/Nymph for a wife, he must be careful not to offend her in the presence of water, or she will return to her element. [21] [22] [19]