drawing
- Museum number
- 1896,0710.29
- Description
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Drawing for an unused subject, connected with "Industry and Idleness" (1747), "The idle 'prentice stealing from his mother"; scene outside a cook shop, at the door, Idle's mother embracing her son who kneels before her and passes behind his back a large tankard lettered 'Fowlers Cooke Shop' to an accomplice, to the right, various meats, a pie and smoking pot displayed at open windows, at entrance to cellar, man in round hat and a wicker cage
Pen and brown ink and grey wash, over graphite
- Production date
- 1746-1747
- Dimensions
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Height: 210 millimetres
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Width: 290 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- 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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1951 Jun-Jul, Tate Gallery, Hogarth, no.9
1964 Dec-May, BM, Hogarth, no.142
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
- 1896,0710.29
