drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1896,0710.16
- Description
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Finished drawing for Pl 7 of "Industry and Idleness" (1747), "The Idle 'Prentice return'd from Sea, and in a Garret with a common Prostitute"; interior in extreme state of decay, prostitute and Idle sitting on broken bed, she appraising an earring from a load of booty, he with raised hands, in background, cat falling down chimney. 1747
Pen and brown ink and grey and brown wash, over graphite, in part re-drawn in graphite, splashed with green colour
Verso: Powdered with pinkish-grey chalk and indented for transfer; a sketch of a reclining figure (?) in pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1746-1747
- Dimensions
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Height: 213 millimetres
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Width: 294 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Two preliminary sketches in the Department: ECM 34*, verso; ECM 24, verso. Engraved by the artist, in reverse and with modifications and additions (note especially the substitution of the prostitute's hooped petticoat for the cutlass above the bed) with the lettering as given in Paulson, 'Hogarth's Graphic Works', No. 174.
See also 1896,0710.2-29, 1914,0613.30, 31, 1981,1003.34, 1982,0227.1-3
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1964 Dec-May, BM, Hogarth, no.139
1981 May-Aug, Castle Museum, Notts, 'English Watercolours'
1983, BM, Hogarth & The Moral Print (no cat.)
1990 April-Aug, BM, Treasures of P&D (no cat.)
2014 Sept-Dec, BM, Hogarth the Draughtsman
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Acquisition notes
- For fuller account of provenance see 1896-7-10-2
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1896,0710.16
