Nymph Collection (page 3)

Paris, France - Chateau d Eau, Jardin du Luxembourg. Date: 1830

Once Upon a Time - a sketch by Claude Shepperson
Two nymphs sit and watch a group of fauns and magical creatures happily play. Date: 1918

Irish emigrants on the deck of a ship. The picture is published with reference to a dreadful collision on the Mersey between two steamers, The Sea Nymph and the Rambler

Spring in Silhouette by H. L. Oakley
An allegorical silhouette by Captain H. L. Oakley contrasting the attraction of spring (complete with a pipe playing Pan and a nymph or fairy) and a spring offensive, showing a British soldier

Mermaid / Octopus Rackham
The Polyps shrink back from the little mermaid in terror. Date: First published : 1836

Margaret Kennedy
MARGARET KENNEDY Author of the immensely popular The constant nymph and other novels. Date: 1896 - 1967

Cockroach in amber

Heteropteryx dilatata, jungle nymph
A close-up head on view of a jungle nymph, a giant stick insect (Heteropteryx dilatata) from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Nymph and Shepherd
Tiziano Vecello, also called Titian (1490-1576). Nymph and Shepherd (Ninfa e pastore). Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Venetian

Cyrene & Aristaeus
The nymph CYRENE in her underwater palace, with her son ARISTAEUS. Date: First published: 29 BC

The Imperturbable Nymph by Prynne
A naked nymph perches on a hillside eating an apple, unmoved by the jewels offered by a powdered and be-wigged 18th century in a frock coat. Date: 1927

The Nymphs by Hookway Cowles
The Nymphs An Illustration by Hookway Cowles depicts 5 women in thin revealing clothing, nearly naked in appearance, prancing through the forest with the sunlight trying to penetrate the Undergrowth

Sabrina Fair
Sabrina, nymph of the River Severn, with her attendants

LIGEA
Ligea combs her hair on a rock

Dancing on Water
Dancing on the surface of the river

Drowning Girl

NAIADS by a stream

A Water Spirit
A water spirit near a river-bank

Milton / Sabrina / Nymph
Sabrina, nymph of the River Severn, is helped by one of her attendants

Water Spirit Undine 1909
A water spirit Date: 1909

Purcells opera King Arthur at Drury Lane Theatre, London
Purcells opera King Arthur on stage at Drury Lane Theatre, London. This is the scene where Arthur is tempted by two nymphs or sirens bathing in a stream, but resists the temptation

Shepherdesses by E. H. Shepard
Gorgeous illustration, a homage to the title of the magazine, The Sketch Book, with shepherdesses in varying states of dress and undress temporarily leave the pages of E. H

The May Queen with attendants, Mid Wales
A group of children dressed as nymphs or fairies, and four attendants with feathered headdresses, with a young woman, probably the May Queen, enthroned at the centre

A Wood Nymph or Dryad - a Russian-published postcard by an English artist (see source)

The Nymph of the Tree Top
A nymph, naked except for diaphanous drapery, stands above the tree tops surveying the forest below

June Rose-Buds by A. K. Macdonald
Series of delicate vignettes by A. K. Macdonald featuring lithe young ladies in various states of undress, picking or enjoying the fragrance of voluptuous June roses

L Apres Midi D Un Faun by Frank M. Lea
A rather ugly faun sleeps off a big lunch while a nymph like waitress, naked but for her apron and hat carries away a tray

What the Angler Saw by A. K. Macdonald
An angler, coming to fish at a salmon pool at dawn is astonished to see a group of lithe and naked nymphs cavorting above the water to a tune played on pipes by Pan

Glaucus the Sea-God
Glaucus - fisherman turned into a sea- god by accident - meets the water-nymph Scylla and instantly falls in love with her, but Circe, jealous, turns her into a monster

Aesach & Alixirhoe
Aesach falls for the nymph Alixirhoe; fleeing his unwelcome advances, she is bitten by a snake, whereupon he jumps off a cliff but is turned into a diver bird

The Nymph & the Sun God
A nymph complains to Helios (the Sun God) that Odysseus (Ulysses) and his men have sacrifed and and eaten her cattle without permission

Orithyia Abducted
The wind-god Boreas falls in love with the nymph Orithyia : when she rejects him, he abducts her and they have twins who, like their father, have wings

Veela & Castle Builders
A Veela (a type of nymph/siren) thwarts the efforts of castle-builders until they perform feats in turn

Numa and Egeria
NUMA, second king of Rome, is instructed by the nymph EGERIA in his wise legislation for the Roman people

Cyrene and Proteus
The water-nymph Cyrene threatens Proteus, who has taken the form of a beast, so he resumes his normal shape and reveals why her son Aristaeuss bees are sick

Pan & Syrinx
The Greek god Pan pursues the Arcadian nymph Syrinx who prays to be changed into a reed; she is, and Pan makes his pipes out of her

ECHO
The nymph Echo, in love with Narcissus, pines away when it turns out he loves only himself, and she becomes nothing but a voice, echoing from a cave

Clytie a Sunflower
When the sea-nymph Clytie is deserted by her lover the sun- god Apollo, she is changed into a sunflower, her face turned towards him as he crosses the heavens daily

Shakespeare / Immortality
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Playwrights bust crowned by the Nymph of Immortality

Scylla into Monster
A nymph beloved by the sea-god Glaucus, she arouses the jealousy of the witch Circe who turns her into a monster, her limbs changing into the heads of dogs !

Arjuna and Nymph
ARJUNA, one of the Pandava brothers and a central figure in the Mahabharata, has an interesting encounter with a river nymph

Leafy Swimwear 1927
A woman with bobbed hair holding aloft a beach ball & striding out of the sea wears an unusual one-piece bathing costume with skirt covered in applique leaves

Gossip about Fairies 39
When you take a drink from a magical or healing spring, don t forget to say Thank you to the water nymph whose job it is to keep it in good working order

Gossip about Fairies 37
Sabrina, a water-nymph who lives in the river Severn, plays a prominent part in Miltons Comus : she is attended by Nereids who share her love of water sports

Belgian Nixies
Belgian NIXIES dance in the air over their river

Peeping at Nymph
An Elf peeps at a lake-spirit as she relaxes under the surface

Water Nymph
SEA-NYMPHS

Nixie in the Well
A NIXIE in the well frightens an old woman who came thereto fetch water

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