Industry and Idleness

Industry and Idleness is a series of 12 prints by William Hogarth

Plate 1:The Fellow 'Prentices at Their Looms

Plate 2:The Industrious 'Prentice performing the Duty of a Christian

Plate 3:The Idle 'Prentice at Play in the Churchyard

Plate 4:The Industrious 'Prentice, a Favourite, and Entrusted by his Master

Plate 5:The Idle 'Prentice Turned Away and Sent to Sea

Plate 6:The Industrious 'Prentice out of his Time, Married to his Master's Daughter

Plate 7:The Idle 'Prentice Returned from Sea and in a Garret with a Common Prostitute

Plate 8:The Industrious 'Prentice Grown Rich and Sheriff of London

Plate 9:The Idle 'Prentice Betrayed by his Whore and Taken in a Night Cellar with his Accomplice

Plate 10:The Industrious 'Prentice Alderman of London, The Idle One Brought Before Him

Plate 11:The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn

Plate 12:The Industrious 'Prentice Lord Mayor of London