The idle 'prentice return'd from sea & in a garret with a common prostitute [graphic] / design'd & engrav'd by Wm. Hogarth.

Edition:

[State 2].

Published/Created:

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

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 26.3 x 34.4 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. 2954
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 174

Notes:

Title etched above image.
State and publisher from Paulson.
"Plate 7"--Below frame.
Seventh plate in the series of twelve: "Industry and idleness."
Caption in decoration in lower edge of frame: "Leviticus Chap: XXVI. Ve: 36. The sound of the shaken leaf shall chace him."
Sotheby's, F.E. Sotheby Sale, lot 215 (Hogarth 's works) to Maggs for W.S. Lewis; 21 Nov. 1955; Acquisition no.: 955-11-21-50. Purchased as a bound collection of 97 prints with Sotheby bookplate; disbound January 1984.
Formerly owned by Frederick Edward Sotheby of Ecton, Northants, 1837-1909.

Abstract:

Tom Idle sits up in a bed as if in a fright, his hair on end and his hands raised in alarm. He looks bugged-eyed at the door that has been secured by two planks wedging it shut. At his side is a prostitute, her back turned towards him as she calmly examines her booty, an earring dangling in her fingers; its pair, two watches and other objects are spread out on a cloth at her side. The two pistols on the floor show that Tom and his companion have been involved in robbery. The rat that runs over the pistols is pursued by a cat leaping from the chimney. The bed has collapsed at the foot, a broken jug and a pipe on the floor along with the remains of a meal. The left of the frame is decorated with a scourge, manacles and a hangman's rope; on the right frame hang the mace of the City of London, the alderman's gold chain and a sword of state.

Variant Titles:

Idle apprentice returned from sea and in a garret with a common prostitute
Industry and idleness. Plate 7.

Associated Names:

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

Topics:

Apprentices
Attics
Cats
Fear
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Poverty
Prostitutes
Rats
Robberies
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909
Steevens, George, 1736-1800

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings -- England -- London -- 1747
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1747
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1747

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

Sotheby 50 Box 100

Orbis Record:

9882478

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22189

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16030506

PID:

digcoll:2808249