The idle 'prentice at play in the church yard during divine service [graphic] / design'd & engrav'd by Wm. Hogarth.

Creator:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker.

Edition:

[State 1].

Published/Created:

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

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 26.5 x 34.9 cm

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Notes:

Title etched above image.
State and publisher from Paulson.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
CtY-LW
Third plate in the series of twelve: Industry and idleness.
"Plate 3"--Below frame.
Caption in decoration in lower edge of frame: Proverbs Ch:XIX. Ve. 29. Judgments are prepar'd for Scorners & Stripes for the back of Fools.

Abstract:

A churchyard with Tom Idle sprawled on a tomb playing hustle-cap with a one-eyed man wearing a striped cap and a ragged boot-black. A younger boy scratches his head in puzzlement as he watches the play, and a beadle raises his cane to strike Idle. In the foreground skulls and bones and an open grave. To the right in the background, the congregation enters the church.

Variant Titles:

Idle apprentice at play in the church yard during divine service
Industry and idleness. Plate 3.

Topics:

Gambling.
Officials.
Puns (Visual works)
Shoe shiners.
Skulls.
Tombs & sepulchral monuments.

Topics:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird,--Baron,--1780-1826--Ownership.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1747.
Parables.

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Call Number:

Kinnaird
46K(a)
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Kinnaird 46K(a) Box 210

Orbis Record:

9866578

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr26195a

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2914
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 170

OID:

16194062

PID:

digcoll:4048601