Industry and Idleness: The Fellow Prentices at their Looms
William Hogarth (London 1697 - London 1764)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper, Wood, Glass
Measurements
305 mm (H)406 mm (W)
Place of origin
Fleet Street
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1329779
Summary
Print, engraving, Industry and Idleness: The Fellow Prentices at their Looms by William Hogarth (London 1697 - London 1764). Dark wood framed Hogarth print, scene from 'Industry and Idleness' series of prints. Image shows a small room with two looms, bobbin winder, spinning wheel. One apprentice sitting at his loom is asleep. Another sitting at his loom. Man standing in doorway with large stick. Small cat or dog playing with a shuttle. Copies of 'The Prentice Guide’ on the floor. Notice on wall ‘Whittington Lord Mayor’. Notice on one loom ‘ Moll Flanders’, and a tankard marked ‘Spitalfields’. Printed on front: ‘Plate 1’ ‘Proverbs ch.23 ver.21 The drunkard shall come to poverty & drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags’ ‘Proverbs ch.10 ver.4 The hand of the diligent maketh rich’ 'Invented by W. Hogarth according to Act of Parliament.' 'London printed for and sold by Rob Sayer at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn Fleet Street.' Reframed. In notebook no.4, page 104 (1340945.4) Charles Wade refers to: 'Mizzen 50. Old Print - Industry & Idleness showing Apprentices at looms'.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Makers and roles
William Hogarth (London 1697 - London 1764), artist Robert Sayer (1725-1794), printseller Robert Sayer (1725-1794), printer
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 4 First and Second Floor, 1944, page 104