Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Casting his contract into the sea, Tom Idle in a rowing boat heads towards a sailing ship past a point of land with four windmills and a prominent gibbet. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1795
Casting his contract into the sea, Tom Idle in a rowing boat heads towards a sailing ship past a point of land with four windmills and a prominent gibbet. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1795
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Casting his contract into the sea, Tom Idle in a rowing boat heads towards a sailing ship past a point of land with four windmills and a prominent gibbet. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1795

William Hogarth

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: The idle 'prentice turned away, and sent to sea. plate 5. designed by Wm Hogarth. engraved by T. Cook. Proverbs chap: X. ve: 1. A foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

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