Abbey's Who Is Sylvia? What Is She That All The Swains Commend Her?
by Cora Wandel
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Abbey's Who Is Sylvia? What Is She That All The Swains Commend Her?
Artist
Cora Wandel
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Photograph
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"Who Is Sylvia? What Is She, That All The Swains Commend Her?" was painted by Edwin Austin Abbey around 1900. The painting depicts a scene from Shakespeare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona". In Act 4, Scene 2 the Host sings the following to Sylvia:
"Who is Sylvia? What is she, that all our swains commend her?
Holy, fair and wise is she; the heaven such grace did lend her, that she might admired be.
Is she kind as she is fair?
For beauty lives with kindness.
Love doth to her eyes repair, to help him of his blindness, and, being help'd, inhabits there.
Then to Sylvia let us sing, that Sylvia is excelling; she excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling: To her let us garlands bring."
The painting was photographed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
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June 8th, 2015
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