print study;
drawing
- Museum number
- 1982,0227.3
- Description
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Intermediary (or finished) drawing for Pl 9 of "Industry and Idleness" (1747), "The idle 'prentice betray'd by his whore, & taken in a night cellar with his accomplice"; in centre, Idle and accomplice, to left grenadier embracing woman, and in front man pushing corpse through trap-door; to right whore receiving bribe from magistrate, with other figures
Black chalk, heightened with white, on blue paper, indented for transfer
- Production date
- 1746-1747
- Dimensions
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Height: 247 millimetres
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Width: 315 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Engraved by the artist, in reverse.
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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1997 Sept - 1998 Jan, BM, Hogarth and his Times, no.24b
2014 Sept-Dec, BM, Hogarth the Draughtsman
- Acquisition date
- 1982
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1982,0227.3