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- Title:
- Industry and Idleness, Plate 1, The Fellow 'Prentices at their Looms
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- Date:
- 1747
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 3/8 × 17 1/4 inches (28.9 × 43.8 cm), Plate: 10 3/8 × 13 5/8 inches (26.4 × 34.6 cm), Image: 8 1/4 × 11 1/4 inches (21 × 28.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered above image, upper center: "The Fellow 'Prentices | INDUSTRY and IDLENESS | at their Looms."; inside image, upper center: "Moll | Flanders"; upper center: "July -"; upper right: "The London | Prentice"; upper right: "Whitington | Ld.. Mayor"; center left: "Spittle | Fields"; lower right: "The | Prentices | Guide "; lower left: "The | Prentices | Guide"; below image, lower left: "Proverbs Chap: 23, Ve: 21, "The Drunkard shall come to | Poverty, & drowsiness shall | cloath a Man w'th rags."; lower right: "Proverbs Ch: 10. Ver: 4 | The hand of the diligent | maketh rich."; lower left: "Designed & Engrav'd by Wm. Hogarth"; lower center: "Plate I"; lower right: "Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 30 Sep. 1747."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2019.24.51
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:82142
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David Bindman, Hogarth, Thames & Hudson, p. 157, no. 118, , NJ18.H67 B56 2021 (YCBA) [YCBA]