The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness Size:XL: 100 x 75cm A satire on the Metropolitan

A satire on the Metropolitan Water Supply

Interior of a room in the King's Arms Inn

from Leadenhall Street'

View of buildings in Great St Helen's

View of the church and the churchyard

The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness Size:XL: 100 x 75cm A satire on the Metropolitan'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.