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Industry and Idleness - Industrious 'Prentice Grown Rich and Sheriff of London

Maker

(artist)
1697-1764

(engraver)
1697-1764

Title

Industry and Idleness - Industrious 'Prentice Grown Rich and Sheriff of London

Date of Production

1747

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 26.3 cm
Width: 34.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2020

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords








Sheriff

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Hogarth and Piranesi: Engravings and etchings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 09/03/1992-07/06/1992

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper margin & recto : : The INDUSTRIOUS 'PRENTICE grown rich (ampersand) Sheriff of London. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : within lower image & recto : : Proverbs //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : : Desing'd (ampersand) Engrav'd by W.m Hogarth Plate 8 Publish'd according to Act of Parliam.t Sep.br 30.1747 //

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