Gallery›Wellcome Collection›In a Spitalfields silk weaver's shop two contrasting apprentices, Tom Idle, asleep, and Francis Goodchild, engrossed in his work, sit at their looms overseen by their master. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1749.
In a Spitalfields silk weaver's shop two contrasting apprentices, Tom Idle, asleep, and Francis Goodchild, engrossed in his work, sit at their looms overseen by their master. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1749.
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In a Spitalfields silk weaver's shop two contrasting apprentices, Tom Idle, asleep, and Francis Goodchild, engrossed in his work, sit at their looms overseen by their master. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1749.

William Hogarth

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Lettering: Industry and idleness. The fellow prentices at their looms. plat 1. design'd by Wm. Hogarth. engraved by T. Cook. proverbs chap: 23, ve: 21, the drunkard shall come to poverty, & drowsiness shall cloath a man with rags. proverbs ch: 10, ver: 4, the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

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