The miseries of idleness [graphic]

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Title: The miseries of idleness [graphic]
Creator: Hudson, Henry, active 1782-1792, printmaker
Contributor: Morland, George, 1763-1804, artist.
Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 January 1790]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Jany. 20, 1790, by J.R. Smith, No. 31 King Street, Covent Garden
Abstract: "A bare interior with a man sitting smoking at a table with a tankard at his elbow, his wife sitting listlessly with bowed head beside him, a little girl pawing at her skirts, a baby turning on a straw bed, its clothes in disarray, and a little boy gnawing on a bone in front of the table, next to a barrel, a dog jumping up at him, with tattered clothes forming curtains around a bed behind them; after Morland."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
After a painting in the National Gallery of Scotland, accession no.: NG 1836.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Companion print to: The comforts of industry.
Provenance: Maggs Bros.; February 2025.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 34 x 38 cm cm, on sheet 34.6X x 39 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English