print; satirical print; book-illustration

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print; satirical print; book-illustration

Object Type: print; satirical print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1983,0625.89.1
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; illustration to Lichtenberg's 'Ausführliche Erklärung' (1784-1796, vol.V). Etching
Producer name: After: William Hogarth; Print made by: Carl Rahl
School/style: British; Austrian
Production date: 1784-1796
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Dimensions: Height: 210 millimetres; Width: 273 millimetres
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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.
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; Illustration to: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Associated places: Topographic representation of: London
Associated titles: Associated Title: Moll Flanders; Associated Title: Ausführliche Erklärung
Acquisition date: 1983
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1983,0625.89.1

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