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Finished drawing for Pl 5 of "Industry and Idleness" (1747), "The idle 'prentice turn'd away and sent to sea"; a boat being rowed down the Thames by a waterman smoking pipe, with Idle 'making the cuckold's horns', a sailor pointing to a gallows on the shore, another sailor showing Idle a lead (?), his mother sitting before him weeping, various shipping and line of windmills in background Brush drawing in grey wash, over graphite, indented for transfer
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