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Edwin Austin Abbey: Who Is Sylvia? What Is She, That All the Swains Commend Her?   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Edwin Austin Abbey  (1852–1911)  wikidata:Q259538
 
Edwin Austin Abbey
Alternative names
E. A. Abbey; Edwin Abbey; Edwin A. Abbey
Description American painter, illustrator and architect
Date of birth/death 1 April 1852 Edit this at Wikidata 1 August 1911 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Philadelphia London
Work period 1862 Edit this at Wikidata–1911 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q259538
Title
Who Is Sylvia? What Is She, That All the Swains Commend Her?
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Depicts a scene from Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, where the Host sings to Sylvia:

"Who is Silvia? 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 Silvia let us sing,
That Silvia is excelling;
She excels each mortal thing
Upon the dull earth dwelling:
To her let us garlands bring."

The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 4, Scene 2.
Date 1896–99; reworked 1900
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 122 × 122 cm (48 × 48 in)
Source/Photographer http://19thcenturyusapaint.blogspot.com/search?q=abbey
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