The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness Size:M: 50 x 40cm stands next to Alderman Wood

stands next to Alderman Wood on the left

View of Old Bailey

in frame with Cap of Liberty

seen from across the Serpentine

The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness Size:M: 50 x 40cm stands next to Alderman Wood'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.