'The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of 'Industry and Idleness', : E Smith

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'The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of 'Industry and Idleness', 1833. Early 19th century version of a scene from Hogarth's series of 1747; 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.

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Size: 4278px × 4099px
Location: World,Europe,United Kingdom,England,Greater London,London,Tower Hamlets,Spitalfields
Photo credit: © The Print Collector/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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