print;
satirical print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1983,0625.89.1
- Title
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Object: The Fellow 'Prentices at their Looms
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Series: Industry and Idleness
- Description
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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; illustration to Lichtenberg's 'Ausführliche Erklärung' (1784-1796, vol.V).
Etching
- Production date
- 1784-1796
- Dimensions
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Height: 210 millimetres
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Width: 273 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- 1983,0625.89.1-6 are copies of the first six plates in the series of Industry and Idleness by Hogarth. They are in a bound volume of Lichtenberg's 'Ausführliche Erklärung' (1784-1796, vol.V) with the original covers.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Moll Flanders
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Associated Title: Ausführliche Erklärung
- Acquisition date
- 1983
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1983,0625.89.1
