The fellow 'prentices at their looms [graphic]

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Title: The fellow 'prentices at their looms [graphic]
Alternative Title: Fellow apprentices at their looms
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: publish'd according to act of Parliament 30 Sep. 1747.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Wm. Hogarth
Abstract: In the weaver's workshop, Tom Idle sleeps, spindle in hand, at his loom beneath a ballad of Moll Flanders, having drunk from a large tankard lettered "Spittle Fields"; Francis Goodchild concentrates on his work while light streams through the window onto ballads of "The London Prentice" and "Whitington, Ld Mayor" on the wall above his head; a cat pulls at Idle's shuttle and the master, Mr. West, enters shaking his cane at his idle apprentice
Description: Title engraved above image.
Series title engraved above image; plate numbering below image.
State and publisher from Paulson.
1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 26.3 x 34.4 cm, on sheet 27.2 x 41.2 cm.
Mounted on leaf 40 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Provenance: Gift of Richard Greenberg; May 2015.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 26.2 x 34.4 cm, on sheet 29.4 x 38.0 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio Greenberg 75 H67 753
Collection Title: Plate 44. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 40. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Collection / Other Creator: Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [1732-1764] [England], [not after 1753]