The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness Size:M: 50 x 40cm seen from across the Serpentine

seen from across the Serpentine

'A Member of the Corporation preparing for a City feast'

The top right hand view is possibly a butchers shop

A satire on the election

in frame with Cap of Liberty

The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness Size:M: 50 x 40cm seen from across the Serpentine'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.