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Sybil Thorndike

Sybil Thorndike, the actor for whom George Bernard Shaw wrote the part of St Joan, died on June 9th, 1976, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Source.

Sybil Sassoon by Sargent

Sybil Sassoon (1894 - 1989) by John Singer Sargent, 1912. She was a Sassoon, a Rothschild and a Cholmondeley. Source.

Sibylla Persica

From the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493. Source.

Lady Hamilton as the Cumaen Sybil

Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, Portrait of Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton, as the Cumaen Sibyl. Source.

Sibylle de Clèves-Juliers-Berg

Sibylle de Clèves-Juliers-Berg, margravine de Burgau (1557-1628). Source.

 

Sibyl Lybica by George Jamesone

George Jamesone painted in Edinburgh in the time of James VI and I. See all his sibyls here.

Delphic Sibyl

The Delphic Sibyl, Sistine Chapel, by Michelangelo. Source.

Young Sibylle of Cleves

Sibylle of Cleves, aged 14, on the occasion of her betrothal, 1526.

Sybil Andrews

Winch (1930), from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Sybil Andrews' designs from the early Thirties are fantastic.