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- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament Sepbr 30, 1747.
- Call Number:
- Folio Greenberg 75 H67 753
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 41. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A churchyard with Tom Idle sprawled on a tomb playing hustle-cap with a one-eyed man wearing a striped cap and a ragged boot-black. A younger boy scratches his head in puzzlement as he watches the play, and a beadle raises his cane to strike Idle. In the foreground skulls and bones and an open grave. To the right in the background, the congregation enters the church
- Alternative Title:
- Idle apprentice at play in the church yard during divine service
- Description:
- Title etched above image., State and publisher from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Third plate in the series of twelve: Industry and idleness., "Plate 3"--Below frame., Caption in decoration in lower edge of frame: Proverbs Ch:XIX. Ve. 29. Judgments are prepar'd for Scorners & Stripes for the back of Fools., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 26.3 x 34.4 cm, on sheet 27.2 x 40.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 41 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Topic):
- Gambling, Officials, Shoe shiners, Skulls, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Rake's progress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The idle 'prentice at play in the church yard during divine service [graphic]