3248001 William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River, 1876 (oil on canvas mounted on composition board) by Eakins, Thomas Cowperthwait (1844-1916); 50.8x61 cm; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA; (add.info.: William Rush (1756-1833) American neo-classical wood sculptor 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 the heron.); American, out of copyright.