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

WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764)

Engraving number 10 of the series: “Industry and Idleness”. Top: The INDUSTRIOUS PRENTICE Alderman of London, the Idle one brought before him & Impeach’d by his Accomplice. Below on the left: 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. Down left: Design’d & Engrav’d by Wm. Hogarth. Right: Publish’d according to Act of Parliamentt Sepbr. 30. 1747. – Plate 10. London.

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