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- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliamt. Sep. 30 1747.
- Call Number:
- Sotheby 54 Box 100
- Collection Title:
- Plate 54. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The place of execution with, in the middle ground, Idle seated in a cart with his coffin and John Wesley exhorting him to repent, the Newgate chaplain in a carriage, the triple gallows, and a wooden gallery crowded with onlookers; in the foreground an unruly mob including a ragged woman selling a copy of "The last dying Speech & confession of Tho. Idle" and Tiddy Doll, the gingerbread seller."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Idle apprentice executed at Tyburn
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Series title 'Industry and idleness', state, and publisher from Paulson., "Plate 11"--Below frame, centered., Caption in decoration in lower edge of frame: "Proverbs Chap 1. Verss: 27, 28. When fear cometh as desolation and their destruction cometh as a Whirlwind: when distress cometh upon them, then they shall call upon God, but he will not answer.", and On laid paper.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Name):
- Wesley, John, 1703-1791
- Subject (Topic):
- Criminals, Crowds, Executions, Executioners, Judges, Parables, Skeletons, Spectators, and Street vendors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The idle 'prentice executed at Tyburn [graphic]