Industry & Idleness Plate 3 The Idle 'Prentice at Play in the Church Yard , during Divine Service by William Hogarth circa 1747

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Plate from Hogarth's Works published 1883 by Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier. Info from wiki: Industry and Idleness is the title of a series of 12 plot-linked engravings created by William Hogarth in 1747, intending to illustrate to working children the possible rewards of hard work and diligent application and the sure disasters attending a lack of both. In plate 3 In this case, Tom Idle is shown doing the exact opposite: gambling and cheating with some pence on top of a tomb in the churchyard. The foreground is strewn with spare bones and skulls, and behind him a beadle is about to strike him with a cane for his insolence and tardiness.

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Size: 4278px × 3000px
Location: England
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