Feb 14
Silvius and Phoebe
Artist: John Pettie (Scottish, 1839-1893)
Date: 1872
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
Description
Pettie specialized in dramatic historical and literary subjects from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Silvius and Phoebe depicts a romantic scene between Shakespere's two shepherd lovers;
'Sweet Phoebe, do not scorn me, do not, Phoebe Say that you love me not, but say not so in bitterness'
-As You Like It, Act III, Sc.v.
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