HOGARTH SERIES - " INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS " - COMPLETE SET OF 12 ENGRAVINGS (c1860)
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:48689531 | Original/ Repro: Original |
| Etching/ Engraving Type: Steel engraved | Type: Antique |
| Subject: William Hogarth | Medium: Etching/ Engraving |
| Style: Vintage |
A complete set of the twelve engravings in the William Hogarth series INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS, which he completed in 1747 and which later became popular with the arrival of steel-engraved printing processes. This series dates to around 1850-1860 and may have been originally published in portfolio form - there are no stitching marks down the edges, which suggests they came from a portfolio intended for framing (which was how many prints were sold), and not from a book. This se...ries describes the lives of two apprentices, one of whom takes up bad company, goes to sea, cavorts with prostitutes. gambles - end ends up on the gallows; the other is hard-working, goes to Church. earns his employer's trust - and ends up as Lord Mayor of London. The prints are titled (1) The fellow 'pprentices at their looms, (2) The industrious 'pprentice performing the duty of a Christian, (3) The idle 'pprentice at play in the church yard, (4) The industrious 'pprentice a favourite and entrusted by his master, (5) The idle 'pprentice turned away and sent to sea, (6) The industrious 'pprentice out of time & married to his master's daughter, (7)The idle 'pprentice returned from sea and in a garret with a prostitute, (8) The industrious 'pprentice grown rich and Sheriff of London, (9) The idle 'pprentice betrayed by a prostitute and (10) Industrious 'pprentice Alderman of London, the idle one impeach'd before him by his accomplice, (11) The idle 'pprentice executed at Tyburn, and (12) The industrious 'pprentice Lord Mayor of London.ALL PAGE SIZE 202mmx290mmALL IN VERY GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION & SUITABLE FOR FRAMING
