Item

Autolycus

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
Item sets
Artworks
Crime and Punishment Ballad Artworks
Media
Leslie_-_Autolycus.jpg

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