Banksy is thought to have been photographed next to scaffolding as he prepared to paint his latest mural on the side of a disued prison wall.
A photograph showing a hunched-over man dressed in a black hat and grey long-sleeved shirt has been circulated online today, after the art was created on Sunday.
But social media users are now speculating whether Banksy should be fined for breaking coronavirus restrictions after travelling to Reading during lockdown for what could be considered a non-essential journey while the government s stay at home order remains in place.
Under the order in place until March 8, people in England are only permitted to leave the house for essential paid or voluntary work, education, medical needs, to shop for food or to exercise.
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A Banksy-inspired artwork has appeared overnight on the walls of a Grade-II listed Victorian jail where Oscar Wilde was famously held.
The artwork, which depicts a prisoner attempting to escape over the wall with a typewriter in his hand, has been etched onto the side of HMP Reading.
Irish poet Oscar Wilde was incarcerated in Reading Gaol from 1895-1897 for committing gross indecency , and the jail inspired his final poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol.