April 17, 2024
1812 WILLIAM RUSH, 1877 THOMAS EAKINS, c1875 stereoview
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This stereoview pictures the 1812 wooden sculpture "Water Nymph and Bittern" by Americas first sculptor William Rush, commitioned for the Philadelphia Waterworks. Thomas Eakins painted a series of paintings in the late 1870's about this carving by William Rush. This is the way the Rush wood carving and Waterworks looked to Thomas Eakins and perhaps the reason for the series of paintings unlike his other American realist works . When opened in 1812 it was a marvel of science and beauty. The first American sculptor William Rush's "Water Nymph and Bittern" was commissioned for the 1812 park and waterworks. It was placed on Canal Street at the base of Fairmount hill, the mill-race was on the other side of Canal Street. Wirh the exception of Niagra Falls it soon became the most visited place in America. This 1875 view was photographed from the end of the mill-race at the base of Fairmount hill looking Northwest accross the mill-race or forebay. The mill-race bridge is in the background. Beyond the trees in the far background is the water in front of Boathouse Row, only 2 tenths of a mile to the north. In 1805 Rush founded the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the first Museum and school for fine arts in the US. Thomas Eakins (a member of the Academy), painted a series of paintings about this sculpture in the late 1870,s. The same period
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