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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 Idle. In the foreground skulls and bones are shown at an open grave. To the right in the background, the congregation enters the church. The right of the frame is decorated with a scourge, manacles and a hangman's rope; on the left frame hang the mace of the City of London, the alderman's gold chain and a sword of state
- Alternative Title:
- Idle apprentice at play in the church yard during divine service
- Description:
- Title etched above image., State from Paulson., "Plate 3"--Below frame., Third plate in the series of twelve: "Industry and idleness"., Caption in decoration in lower edge of frame: "Proverbs Ch:XIX. Ve. 29. Judgments are prepar'd for Scorners & Stripes for the back of Fools.", 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 26.3 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 29.1 x 44.4 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 46 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- 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]
