The idle 'prentice executed at Tyburn', plate XI of Industry and Idleness mb-height 3999 House on Austin Friars Street

House on Austin Friars Street

The Church of St John at Hackney

and the first floor is divided into two rooms crammed with beds

A slim and foppish officer helps a lady from a coach in the background

The idle 'prentice executed at Tyburn', plate XI of Industry and Idleness mb-height 3999 House on Austin Friars Street'The idle 'prentice executed at Tyburn', plate XI of Industry and Idleness, 1747; The crowds gather at Tyburn to watch Idle's execution. A Methodist preacher urges him to repent; the executioner sits astride the gallows. A woman peddles the 'Last Dying Speech' and Tiddy Doll sells gingerbread, amidst fighting and shouting spectators. Final state of plate.