[Industry and idleness in twelve plates].

Description

Title: [Industry and idleness in twelve plates].
Alternative Title: Fellow apprentices at their looms
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [30 September 1747]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Wm. Hogarth
Abstract: A series of twelve plates following the careers of two apprentice weavers, one who through industry rises to become Mayor of London while the other through his idleness ends up hanged at Tyburn
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Series title engraved above image; plate numbering below image.
State and publisher from Paulson.
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Provenance: Gifted by Henry Man (1747/48-1799) to his son Harry Stoe Man (1783-1848) in 1796. Purchased from Jarndyce, December 2019.
Extent: 12 prints in 1 volume : plate mark 26.2 x 35 cm, on sheet 29.4 x 38 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English