The industrious 'prentice grown rich & Sheriff of London. Plate 8 [graphic] / design'd & engrav'd by Wm. Hogarth.

Edition:

[State 1].

Published/Created:

[London]
[Wm. Hogarth]
publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Sepbr. 30, 1747

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 26.3 x 34.5 cm, on sheet 29.5 x 38.5 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2963
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 175

Notes:

Title engraved above image.
State and publisher from Paulson.
"Plate 8"--Below frame.
Eighth plate in the series of twelve: Industry and idleness.
Caption in decoration in lower edge of frame: Proverbs Ch:IV. Ver: 7,8. With all thy getting get understanding. Exalt her & she shall promote thee; she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., Edinburgh; August 1940; £20 Kinnaird lot. With Kinnaird bookplate; disbound at Yale.
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Sheet trimmed within plate mark to 262 x 347 cm.

Abstract:

Goodchild and his wife are seated in the place of honour in a large banquet hall. In the foreground, greedy liverymen are waited on by a young black man, while a boorish beadle stops a crowd of petitioners at the door, one of whom has handed him a letter addressed "To the Worshipt. Fras. Goodchild Es. Sher[iff of] ... Londo[n]." The walls are decorated with two large portraits, one of which is William III and a statue of Sr William Walworth Kt. The right of the frame is decorated with a scourge, manacles and a hangman's rope; on the left frame hang the mace of the City of London, the alderman's gold chain and a sword of state.

Variant Titles:

Industrious apprentice grown rich and Sheriff of London
Industry and idleness. Plate 8.

Associated Names:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Printmaker]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]

Topics:

Banquet halls
Banquets
Business people
Eating & drinking
Gluttony
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Servants
Sheriffs
Steevens, George, 1736-1800

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1747
Parables

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

Kinnaird 48K(b) Box 100

Orbis Record:

9856337

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22412

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16030737

PID:

digcoll:2807251