The fellow prentices at their looms, plate I of Industry and Idleness, 1747
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The fellow prentices at their looms, plate I of Industry and Idleness, 1747
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
Media ID 15166912
© London Metropolitan Archives (City of London) / Heritage-Images
Apprentice Asleep Francis Goodchild Hogarth Idleness Industrious Laziness Lazy Loom Machine Machinery Manufacturing Sleep Sleeping Spitalfields Textile Worker Textiles Worker Tom Idle Tower Hamlets W Hogarth Weaver William Hogarth Workshop
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