Autolycus
Oil Painting
ca. 1836 (painted)
ca. 1836 (painted)
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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.
Object details
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| Title | Autolycus (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | oil on canvas |
| Brief description | Oil painting by Charles Robert Leslie depicting Autolycus from Shakespeare's 'A Winter's Tale' (Act IV, Scene 4). Great Britain, 1836. |
| Physical description | Oil painting depicting the character Autolycus from Shakespeare's 'A Winter's Tale' (Act IV, Scene 4). |
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| Credit line | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Object history | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Subject depicted | |
| Literary reference | 'The Winter's Tale' by William Shakespeare |
| Summary | 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. |
| Bibliographic reference | Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 164-65 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | FA.115[O] |
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| Record created | May 19, 2003 |
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