Gallery›Wellcome Collection›A crowd of curious spectators wait as Tom Idle is driven in a cart with his coffin to his place of execution and the gallows. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1747.
A crowd of curious spectators wait as Tom Idle is driven in a cart with his coffin to his place of execution and the gallows. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1747.
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A crowd of curious spectators wait as Tom Idle is driven in a cart with his coffin to his place of execution and the gallows. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1747.

William Hogarth · 1747

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: The idle 'prentice executed at Tyburn. plate 11. design'd & engrav'd by W. Hogarth. Proverbs chap: I. ver: 27,28. When fear cometh as desolation, and their destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress cometh upon them then they shall call upon God, but he will not answer.

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