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

WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764)

Print number 9 of the series of 12 prints entitled: Industry and Idleness.

England, 1747.

Edition by John and Joshia Boydell, London, 1790-1810.

Etching on vellum paper.

Above: The IDLE’ PRENTICE betray’d by his Whore, taken in a Night Cellar with his Accomplice. Abajo: Proverb CHAP: VI. Ve: 26. / The Adulteress will bunt for / the precious life. Abajo a la izquierda: Design’d & Engrav’d by Wm. Hogarth. Right: Publish’d according to Act of Parliam.t Sep. 30. 1747. – Plate 9.

Good state of preservation. Cut a little at the bottom, near the imprint.