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. Object Type: painting. Date: 1896–99; reworked 1900. Dimensions: 122 × 122 cm (48 × 48 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Edwin Austin Abbey - Who is Sylvia? What is She, That All the Swains Commend Her?
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