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Banksy has confirmed a sixth new mural in London within a week after a fresh graffiti was unveiled today.
The elusive artist has hit again, this time on Edgware Road in Cricklewood, northwest London.
A big cat was spotted doing a stretch on a dilapidated billboard this morning.
The first lucky person to set eyes on the painting was Simon Stephenson, 53, on his way to Lidl when he saw the big cat.
Londoners were casually going about their Saturday morning when the new Banksy was spotted on Edgware Road (Picture: Simon Stephenson / SWNS)
All six new Banksy murals revealed in London this week (Picture:EPA/PAwire/Getty/Shutterstock/SWNS)
A long time Banksy collector, he claimed he knew ‘immediately’ it is by the mysterious artist.
He said: ‘I saw it at 8am this morning – I just glanced at it initially. I’ve been collecting all his work anyway, for the last 20 years – I knew immediately it was him.
‘Nobody’s paid any attention to it. It could be a priceless artwork and they just see it as rubbish in the street.
‘It looks like a tiger breaking down a billboard. Such a clever use of the medium.’
Is devil in the detail of the new Banksy mural? The paint on the disused billboard in Cricklewood appeared fresh on Saturday morning (Picture: Simon Stephenson / SWNS)
What the site of the new Banksy mural on Edgware Road looked like in the summer two years ago (Picture: Google)
Online sleuths appeared to agree with Simon’s verdict, with some Reddit users saying it looked like a potential new Banksy – just moments before the big cat’s origin was confirmed as the artist’s work on the Banksy Instagram account with more than 12 million followers.