Autolycus
Title
Autolycus
Subject
Oil painting by Charles Robert Leslie depicting Autolycus from Shakespeare's 'A Winter's Tale' (Act IV, Scene 4). Great Britain, 1836.
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/
Source: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O80881/autolycus-oil-painting-leslie-charles-robert/
Creator
Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794 - 1859
Publisher
Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 164-65
Date
ca. 1836 (painted)
Rights
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art.
Original Format
Oil painting on canvas
Files
Collection
Citation
Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794 - 1859 , “Autolycus,” Execution Ballads, accessed July 16, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/execution-ballads/items/show/1110.