The miseries of idleness [graphic]Hudson, Henry, active 1782-1792, printmaker[20 January 1790]eng"A bare interior with a man sitting smoking at a table with a tankard at his elbow, his wife sitting listlessly with bowed head beside him, a little girl pawing at her skirts, a baby turning on a straw bed, its clothes in disarray, and a little boy gnawing on a bone in front of the table, next to a barrel, a dog jumping up at him, with tattered clothes forming curtains around a bed behind them; after Morland."--British Museum online catalogueTitle from text below image.After a painting in the National Gallery of Scotland, accession no.: NG 1836.Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.Companion print to: The comforts of industry.