"Industry and Idleness"
Record No
25129
Title
"Industry and Idleness"
Description
'The idle 'prentice at play in the church yard during divine service', plate III of "Industry and Idleness"; The idle apprentice plays hustle-cap with some pickpockets and a shoeblack on a tombstone. The parish beadle prepares to strike him with his cane.
Date of execution
1747
Section
London Metropolitan Archives
Collection
Hogarth Collection
Artist
Hogarth, William (1697-1764)
Engraver
Hogarth, William (1697-1764)
Medium
engraving
Support
paper
Longest dimension
36cms
Shortest dimension
28cms
Picture type
satire
Catalogue No
p5434186
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