- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament 30 Sep. 1747.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Plate 44. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 40. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In the weaver's workshop, Tom Idle sleeps, spindle in hand, at his loom beneath a ballad of Moll Flanders, having drunk from a large tankard lettered "Spittle Fields"; Francis Goodchild concentrates on his work while light streams through the window onto ballads of "The London Prentice" and "Whitington, Ld Mayor" on the wall above his head; a cat pulls at Idle's shuttle and the master, Mr. West, enters shaking his cane at his idle apprentice
- Alternative Title:
- Fellow apprentices at their looms
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., Series title engraved above image; plate numbering below image., State and publisher from Paulson., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 26.3 x 34.7 cm, on sheet 29 x 44.3 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 44 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Topic):
- Apprentices, Cats, Looms, Rake's progress, Sleeping, Supervisors, Textile industry, and Weaving
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fellow 'prentices at their looms [graphic]
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