The idle 'prentice executed at Tyburn [graphic]
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16194077
Description
- Title
- The idle 'prentice executed at Tyburn [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Idle apprentice executed at Tyburn
- Creator
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
- Published / Created
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, Sep. 30, 1747.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Wm. Hogarth
- Abstract
-
"The place of execution with, in the middle ground, Idle seated in a cart with his coffin and John Wesley exhorting him to repent, the Newgate chaplain in a carriage, the triple gallows, and a wooden gallery crowded with onlookers; in the foreground an unruly mob including a ragged woman selling a copy of "The last dying Speech & confession of Tho. Idle" and Tiddy Doll, the gingerbread seller."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title engraved above image.
Series title 'Industry and idleness', state, and publisher from Paulson.
"Plate 11"--Below frame, centered.
Caption in decoration in lower edge of frame: Proverbs Chap 1. Verss: 27, 28. When fear cometh as desolation and their destruction cometh as a Whirlwind: when distress cometh upon them, then they shall call upon God, but he will not answer.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark; right corner worn with loss of last two characters in the date.
On page 141 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed within plate mark to: 27 x 40.4 cm. - Provenance
- George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 27.2 x 41 cm
- Edition
- [State 2].
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title
- Leaf 45. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Collection Date
- [England], [not after 1753]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Etchings England London 1747 - Material
- etching with engraving ;
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Wesley, John, 1703-1791
- Subject (Topic)
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Criminals
Crowds
Executions
Executioners
Judges
Parables
Skeletons
Spectators
Street vendors - Subjects
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Wesley, John, 1703-1791 > Caricatures and cartoons
Criminals
Crowds
Executions
Executioners
Judges
Parables
Skeletons
Spectators
Street vendors
England > London > 1747
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Greenberg, Richard > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9867288
- Object ID (OID)
- 16194077
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