Autolycus · Crime and Punishment Ballads

Title: Autolycus
Description: Autolycus was a thief disguised as a pedlar who appears in Shakespeare's play A Winter's Tale. He is shown here selling cheap goods and sensational printed ballads to gullible country folk. Leslie based the background sky and the ash tree at the right on studies supplied by his friend, the landscape painter John Constable. Source: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O80881/autolycus-oil-painting-leslie-charles-robert/
Creator: Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794 - 1859
Date: ca. 1836 (painted)
Publisher: Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 164-65
Rights: This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art.
Subject: Oil painting by Charles Robert Leslie depicting Autolycus from Shakespeare's 'A Winter's Tale' (Act IV, Scene 4). Great Britain, 1836.
Original Format: Oil painting on canvas