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- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, publisher
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliam[en]t Sep 30 1747.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 44. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In an underground drinking den Tom Idle, with a pistol at his foot and another in his pocket, shows his stolen goods to his one-eyed accomplice unaware that behind him his companion (the prostitute) from the garret bedroom (Plate 7) is betraying him to the magistrate and constables. A serving woman with a patch where her nose should be approaches the two thieves with a large tankard in her hands. To their right, the body of a man is being pushed through a trapdoor. In the far right a soldier with his back to the viewer embraces a woman. In the background there is a brawl while two other men sit by the fireside, one of whom is smoking a pipe before a roaring fire, the other asleep under a rope (noose?). 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 betrayed by his whore and taken in a night cellar with his accomplice and Industry and idleness, plate 9
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., State and publisher from Paulson., "Plate 9"--Below frame., Ninth plate in the series of twelve: Industry and idleness., Caption in decoration in lower edge of frame: Proverbs Chap:VI. Ve: 26. The Adulteress will hunt for the precious life., and On page 139 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed within plate mark to: 26.5 34.6 cm.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Topic):
- Bars, Criminals, Fighting, Homicides, Judges, Pipes (Smoking), Prostitutes, and Rake's progress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The idle 'prentice betray'd by his whore & taken in a night cellar with his accomplice. [graphic] / Plate 9
