AUTOLYCUS 1866 Lumb Stocks - Charles Robert Leslie VICTORIAN ENGRAVING

Original 1866 7 1/4 inch x 9 3/4 inch engraving titled AUTOLYCUS

Autolycus disguised as a pedlar wearing a cloak and hat with a feather, singing from a newsheet and displaying trinkets in a large wooden case hanging around his neck, surrounded by a crowd of curious country folk, including a woman sitting on a bench outside a cottage to left and a shepherd with his crook.
From “The Winter’s Tale” by William Shakespeare.
From the picture in the Sheepshanks Gallery.

Engraving by Lumb Stocks (1812 - 1892).

After Charles Robert Leslie (1794 - 1859). Anglo-American painter and writer on art. In his day he was well known for his paintings of literary themes, but he is now remembered mainly as a writer, above all for his Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843), which is regarded as one of the classics of artistic biography.

Published in the Art Journal by J.S. Virtue & Co. Ltd., London.

Page size 12 7/8 inch x 9 3/8 inch

The engraving, on fairly thick paper, is in very good condition. Reverse side blank.