The idle 'prentice executed at Tyburn [graphic] / design'd & engrav'd by Wm. Hogarth.
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker.
- Edition:
- [State 2].
- Published/Created:
- [London] :
[Wm. Hogarth],
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Sep. 30, 1747. - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 27.2 x 40.4 cm
- Notes:
- Title engraved above image.
Series title 'Industry and idleness', state, and publisher from Paulson.
"Plate 11"--Below frame, centered.
Caption in decoration in lower edge of frame: Proverbs Chap 1. Verss: 27, 28. When fear cometh as desolation and their destruction cometh as a Whirlwind: when distress cometh upon them, then they shall call upon God, but he will not answer.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark; right corner worn with loss of last two characters in the date.
CtY-LW - Abstract:
- the place of execution with, in the middle ground, Idle is seated in a cart leaning against his coffin; he is and John Wesley exhorting him to repent, the Newgate chaplain in a carriage, the triple gallows, and a wooden gallery crowded with onlookers. In the center foreground of the mob stands a ragged woman holding a baby and in the hand a copy of "The last dying Speech & confession of Tho. Idle". and Tiddy Doll, the gingerbread seller. Both sides of the frame are decorated with skeletons.
- Variant Titles:
- Idle apprentice executed at Tyburn
Industry and idleness. Plate 11. - Topics:
- Criminals.
Crowds.
Executioners.
Executions.
Judges.
Parables.
Skeletons.
Spectators.
Street vendors. - Topics:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird,--Baron,--1780-1826--Ownership.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership.
Wesley, John,--1703-1791--Caricatures and cartoons. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1747.
Parables. - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird
50K(a)
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Kinnaird 50K(a) Box 215 - Orbis Record:
- 9867288
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr26203a
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2989
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 178 - OID:
- 16194077
- PID:
- digcoll:4047157
