Silvius and Phoebe

Artist John Pettie (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1839 - 1893)

Associated William Shakespeare (Stratford-upon-Avon, England, 1564 - 1616)

Date1872

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsOverall: Height: 73.5 cm, Width: 105.3 cm
Frame: Height: 113.5 cm, Width: 144.9 cm

AcquisitionAlexander Macdonald Bequest, 1901.

CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG004103

Keywords

About MeAs one of a group of highly talented young artists trained in Edinburgh during the early 1850s, John Pettie went on to pursue an extremely successful career in London.

Pettie specialised 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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'Sweet Phebe do not Scorn me; do not Phebe; say that you love me not, but say not so in bitterness' As You Like It Act III Scene 5.