The industrious 'prentice grown rich & Sheriff of London. Plate 8 [graphic] / design'd & engrav'd by Wm. Hogarth.

Edition:
[State 1].
Published/Created:
[London]
[Wm. Hogarth]
publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Sepbr. 30, 1747
Physical Description:
1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 26.3 x 34.5 cm, on sheet 29.5 x 38.5 cm
Notes:
Title engraved above image.
State and publisher from Paulson.
"Plate 8"--Below frame.
Eighth plate in the series of twelve: Industry and idleness.
Caption in decoration in lower edge of frame: Proverbs Ch:IV. Ver: 7,8. With all thy getting get understanding. Exalt her & she shall promote thee; she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., Edinburgh; August 1940; £20 Kinnaird lot. With Kinnaird bookplate; disbound at Yale.
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Sheet trimmed within plate mark to 262 x 347 cm.
Abstract:
Goodchild and his wife are seated in the place of honour in a large banquet hall. In the foreground, greedy liverymen are waited on by a young black man, while a boorish beadle stops a crowd of petitioners at the door, one of whom has handed him a letter addressed "To the Worshipt. Fras. Goodchild Es. Sher[iff of] ... Londo[n]." The walls are decorated with two large portraits, one of which is William III and a statue of Sr William Walworth Kt. The right of the frame is decorated with a scourge, manacles and a hangman's rope; on the left frame hang the mace of the City of London, the alderman's gold chain and a sword of state.
Variant Titles:
Industrious apprentice grown rich and Sheriff of London
Industry and idleness. Plate 8.
Associated Names:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Printmaker]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]
Topics:
Banquet halls
Banquets
Business people
Eating & drinking
Gluttony
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Servants
Sheriffs
Steevens, George, 1736-1800
Language:
English
Genre:
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1747
Parables
Format:
Image
Content Type:
Prints & Photographs
Rights:
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Call Number:
Kinnaird 48K(b) Box 100
Orbis Record:
9856337
Yale Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Digital Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:
lwlpr22412
Volume/Enumeration:
Digital version
OID:
16030737
PID:
digcoll:2807251