The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness Size:M: 50 x 40cm in frame with Cap of

in frame with Cap of Liberty

A satire on the election

to play a match at rackets with Sir John Blubber'

The top right hand view is possibly a butchers shop

The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness Size:M: 50 x 40cm in frame with Cap of'The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness, 1747; the scene is 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. Final state of the plate.