The idle prentice betray’d by his Whore, taken in a Night Cellar with his Accomplice

WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764)

Engraving number 9 of the series: “Industry and Idleness”. Top: The IDLE’ PRENTICE betray’d by his Whore, taken in a Night Cellar with his Accomplice. Below: Proverb CHAP: VI. Ve: 26. / The Adulteress will bunt for / the precious life. Left: Design’d & Engrav’d by Wm. Hogarth. Right: Publish’d according to Act of Parliam.t Sep. 30. 1747. – Plate 9. London.

Fine state of conservation. Little cut on the upper paper close to the mark.