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- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, Sepbr. 30, 1747.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Plate 46. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Tom Idle is shown in a churchyard sprawled on a tomb playing hustle-cap with a one-eyed man wearing a striped cap and a ragged boot-black. A younger boy scratches his head in puzzlement as he watches the play, and a beadle raises his cane to strike Id...
- Alternative Title:
- Idle apprentice at play in the church yard during divine service
- Description:
- Title etched above image.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Topic):
- Gambling, Officials, Shoe shiners, Skulls, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Rake's progress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The idle 'prentice at play in the church yard during divine service [graphic]