The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness Size:M: 50 x 40cm cooking utensils and a cat

cooking utensils and a cat

in frame with Cap of Liberty

stands next to Alderman Wood on the left

Interior view of the west ante-room in Carlton House

View of Old Bailey

The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness Size:M: 50 x 40cm cooking utensils and a cat'The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness, 1747; the scene is a Spitalfields silk weaving shop, London. The industrious apprentice works busily while the idle apprentice has fallen asleep. The master enters, glares at the idle apprentice and threatens him with his stick. A page from Moll Flanders hangs above the head of the idle apprentice. Final state of the plate.