The idle 'prentice betray'd by his whore & taken in a night cellar with his accomplice. [graphic] / Plate 9Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, publisherpublish'd according to act of Parliam[en]t Sep 30 1747.engIn an underground drinking den Tom Idle, with a pistol at his foot and another in his pocket, shows his stolen goods to his one-eyed accomplice unaware that behind him his companion (the prostitute) from the garret bedroom (Plate 7) is betraying him to the magistrate and constables. A serving woman with a patch where her nose should be approaches the two thieves with a large tankard in her hands. To their right, the body of a man is being pushed through a trapdoor. In the far right a soldier with his back to the viewer embraces a woman. In the background there is a brawl while two other men sit by the fireside, one of whom is smoking a pipe before a roaring fire, the other asleep under a rope (noose?). 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 stateTitle engraved above image.State and publisher from Paulson."Plate 9"--Below frame.Ninth plate in the series of twelve: Industry and idleness.Caption in decoration in lower edge of frame: Proverbs Chap:VI. Ve: 26. The Adulteress will hunt for the precious life.On laid paper. Sheet trimmed within plate mark to 263 x 349 mm.