drawing
- Museum number
- 1896,0710.28
- Description
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Drawing for an unused subject connected with "Industry and Idleness" (1747), "The industrious 'prentice when a merchant, giving money to his parents"; interior of warehouse surrounded by a balcony supported on pillars, Goodchild seated beside table with parents, to the left, a weighing-machine, man and sacks
Pen and brown ink and grey wash, over graphite
Verso: Two slight sketches of heads and shoulders
Graphite
- Production date
- 1746-1747
- Dimensions
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Height: 211 millimetres
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Width: 290 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- According to Nichols (Anecdotes, II) this drawing and 1896-7-10-29 were designed 'to come in after Plate VIII'.
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.141 1983, BM, Hogarth & The Moral Print (no cat.)
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Acquisition notes
- For fuller account of provenance see 1896-7-10-2
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1896,0710.28
