The Industrios Prentice Alderman of London, the Idle one brought before him & Impeach’d by his Accomplice

WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764)

Print number 10 of the series of 12 engravings entitled: Industry and Idleness.

England, 1747.

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

Etching on vellum.

Above: The INDUSTRIOUS PRENTICE Alderman of London, the Idle one brought before him & Impeach’d by his Accomplice. Abajo izquierda: Psalm IX. Ver 16. / The Wicked is snar’d in the /work of his own hands. Right: Leviticus CH: XIX. Ve: 15. Thou shall do no unrighteous- / -ness in Judgement. A baix a l’esquerra: Design’d & Engrav’d by Wm. Hogarth. A la derecha : Publish’d according to Act of Parliamentt Sepbr. 30. 1747. – Plate 10.

Good state of preservation. Cut at the top, near the imprint and close to stamp 9.