print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1978,U.3480.1
Title: Object: The Fellow 'Prentices at their Looms; Series: Industry and Idleness
Description: Copy of Plate 1: Tom Idle sleeps at his loom beneath a ballad of Moll Flanders, having drunk from a large tankard lettered "Spittle Fields"; Francis Goodchild concentrates on his work while light streams through the window on to ballads of "The London Prentice" and "Whitington, Ld Mayor" on the wall above his head; a cat pulls at Idle's shuttle and the master, Mr West, enters bearing a stick; after Hogarth. Etching and engraving
Producer name: After: William Hogarth; Published by: Bowles & Carver; Published by: Laurie & Whittle
School/style
Production date: 1794-1812
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 255 millimetres; Width: 364 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: 1978,U.3480.1-10 are from the same series. Grey wash on the image of the present print, and pencil sketch in the right margin.
Bibliographic references: Paulson 1989 / Hogarth's Graphic Works: third edition (168) (copy); Paulson 1965/70 / Hogarth's graphic works: first complete edition (168) (copy); BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; workshop; silk production
Associated names: Associated with: Sir Richard Whittington; Illustration to: Daniel Defoe
Associated places: Topographic representation of: London
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Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1891
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1978,U.3480.1

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