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Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "Hogarth"; lower right: "British XVIII | Hogarth, William | Industry and Idleness | 1965.40.2"; lower right: "1965.40.2"

Lettered above image, upper center: "INDUSTRY and IDLENESS exemplified in the Conduct of the FELLOW APPRENTICES, in Twelve Moral & Instructive Prints."; inside image, upper left: "The fellow Apprentices at their Looms."; upper right: "The Industr's. Apprentice performing the duty of a Christian."; upper left: "The Idle APPRENTICE at Play in the | Church Yard during Divine Service"; upper right: "The Industrious Apprentice | a Favourite, & entrusted by his Master."; center left: "The IDLE APPRENTICE | Turnd away and sent to Sea."; center right: "The Industrious Apprentice out of his Time | and MARRIED to his MASTERS DAUGHTER"; center left: "The IDLE APPRENTICE return'd from Sea, | and in a Garret with a common Prostitute."; center right: "The Industrious Apprentice | grown Rich & Sheriff of London."; lower left: "The IDLE APPRENTICE betray'd by his Whore, | and taken in a Night Cellar with his Accomplice."; lower right: "The Indust's. Apprentice Alderman of London | the Idle one brought before him and Impheachd | by his Accomplice."; below image, lower left: "THE IDLE APPRENTICE | EXECUTED at TYBURN."; lower right: "The Industrious Apprentice | LORD MAYOR of LONDON."; lower center: "London, Published by R. Sayer, and J. Bennett, No. 53, Fleet Street; as the Act directs, Novr. 1 1775."