William Hogarth

Industry and Idleness: Plates 1 & 2 (The Fellow Prentices at their Looms & Performing the Duty of a Christian)

The Fellow Prentices at their Looms
(William Hogarth's Industry and Idleness: Plate 1)

The Industrious Prentice Performing the Duty of a Christian
(William Hogarth's Industry and Idleness: Plate 2)

In this scene, William Hogarth portrays the two apprentices as they begin their journey on an entirely equal footing. Both begin at the same shop and under identical circumstances. Francis Goodchild, the Industrious apprentice, sits to the right. He is diligently at work upon his loom and beside him rests a well preserved copy of 'The Prentices Loom". To the left (and fast asleep) is the Idle apprentice, Thomas Idle.

This original engraving entitled, The Fellow Prentices at their Looms was both designed and engraved by William Hogarth and published by William Heath in 1822.

Industry and Idleness: Plate 1; Paulson #168, Second and Final State.

The second and third scenes outline the apprentices' attitudes towards religion. In HOgarth's Plate Two, Goodchild performs his religious duties as a Christian in the same dedicated manner as his work. Besides him is the daughter of his master. To the left a pew opener sits with her back towards the ceremony. For the most part the congregation is attentive and well behaved.

This original engraving entitled, The Industrious Prentice Performing the Duty of a Christian was both designed and engraved by William Hogarth and published by William Heath in 1822.

Industry and Idleness: Plate 2; Paulson #169, Second and Final State.

Two Original Etchings & Engravings by the British artist, William Hogarth

Industry and Idleness at their Looms and Performing the Duty of a Christian Two Original Etchings and Engravings by the British artist William Hogarth

(Plate 01) Industry and Idleness: The two apprentices begin their journey on an entirely equal footing. Both begin at the same shop and under identical circumstances. Francis Goodchild, the Industrious apprentice, sits to the right. He is diligently at work upon his loom and beside him rests a well preserved copy of 'The Prentices Loom". To the left (and fast asleep) is the Idle apprentice, Thomas Idle.

(Plate 02) Industry and Idleness: The second scene outlines the Industrious apprentice's attitudes towards religion. Here, the Industrious Prentice is Performing the Duty of a Christian, Goodchild performs his religious duties in the same dedicated manner as his work. Besides him is the daughter of his master.

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# 15.- Industry and Idleness by William Hogarth: (Complete Set of Twelve Engravings)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Info	-
01-02.		Industry and Idleness, Plate 1: The Fellow Prentices at their Looms & Plate 2: The Industrious Prentice Performing the Duty of a Christian by William Hogarth	Two Original Etchings & Engravings	1747 (Heath Edition 1822)	Plate 1; Paulson #168, Second and Final State. & Plate 2; Paulson #169, Second and Final State.	Sold
03-04.		Industry and Idleness, Plate 3: The Idle Prentice at Play in the Church Yard, During Divine Service & Plate 4: The Industrious Prentice a Favourite, and Entrusted by his Master by William Hogarth	Two Original Etchings & Engravings	1747 (Heath Edition 1822)	Plate 3; Paulson #170, Second and Final State & Plate 4; Paulson #171, Second and Final State.	Sold
05-06		Industry and Idleness, Plate 5: The Idle Prentice Turn'd Away, and Sent to Sea & Plate 6: The Industrious Prentice out of Time, and Married to his Master's Daughter by William Hogarth	Two Original Etchings & Engravings	1747 (Heath Edition 1822)	Plate 5; Paulson #172, Third and Final State & Plate 6; Paulson #173, Fourth and Final State.	Sold
07-08.		Industry and Idleness, Plate 7: The Idle Prentice Returned from the Sea, and in a Garret & Plate 8: The Industrious Prentice grown Rich, And Sheriff of London by William Hogarth	Two Original Etchings & Engravings	1747 (Heath Edition 1822)	Plate 7; Paulson #174, Second and Final State & Plate 8; Paulson #175, Second and Final State.	Sold
09-10.		Industry and Idleness, Plate 9: The Idle Prentice Betray'd and Taken in a Night Cellar with his Accomplice & Plate 10: The Industrious Prentice Alderman of London, the Idle One Brought before him & Impeached by William Hogarth	Two Original Etchings & Engravings	1747 (Heath Edition 1822)	Plate 9; Paulson #176, Fourth and Final State. & Plate 10; Paulson #177, Second and final State.	Sold
11.-		Industry and Idleness, Plate 11: The Idle Prentice Executed at Tyburn	An Original Etching & Engraving	1747 (Heath Edition 1822)	Plate 11; Paulson, Catalogue #178, Third and Final State.	Sold
12.-		Industry and Idleness, Plate 12: The Industrious Apprentice Lord Mayor of London by William Hogarth	An Original Engraving & Etching	1747(Heath Edition 1822)	Plate 12; Paulson #179, Third and Final State.	Sold

William Hogarth (London, 1697 - 1764)
#	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	-
01.-	An Election Entertainment by William Hogarth	Complete Set of Four Original Engravings	1755 - 1758 (Heath Ed)	Sold
02.-	Analysis of Beauty by William Hogarth	Complete Set of Two Original Engravings (Plate I & II)	1753 (Heath Ed)	Sold
03.-	A Midnight Modern Conversation by William Hogarth	Original Engraving & Etching	1732 (Heath Ed)	Sold
04.-	A Rake's Progress by William Hogarth	Complete Set of Eight Original Engravings	1735 (Heath Ed)	Sold
05.-	A Chorus of Singers by William Hogarth	Original Engraving & Etching	1732 (Heath Ed)	Sold
06.-	Battle of the Pictures by William Hogarth	Original Engraving & Etching	1743 (Heath Ed)	Sold
07.-	Boys Peeping at Nature by William Hogarth	Original Engraving & Etching	1730 (Heath Ed)	Available
08.-	Characters & Caricaturas by William Hogarth	Original Engraving & Etching	1743 (Heath Ed)	Sold
09.-	Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism by William Hogarth	Original Engraving & Etching	1762 (Heath Ed)	Sold
10.-	Four Times of The Day by William Hogarth	Complete Set of Four Original Engravings	1738 (Heath Ed)	Sold
11.-	Four Stages of Cruelty by William Hogarth	Complete Set of Four Original Engravings	1750-1751 (Heath Ed)	Sold
12.-	Frontispiece to Taylor's Perspective by William Woollett & William Hogarth	Original Line Engraving	1761 (Heath Ed)	Sold
13.-	Gin Lane by William Hogarth	Original Engraving & Etching	1750-1751 (Heath Ed)	Sold
14.-	Illustrations for Samuel Butler's 'Hudibras' by William Hogarth	Complete Set of Twelve Original Engravings	1725 (Heath Ed)	Available
15.-	Industry and Idleness by William Hogarth	Complete Set of Twelve Original Engravings	1747 (Heath Ed)	Sold
16.-	John Wilkes Esquire by William Hogarth	Original Etching	1763 (Heath Ed)	Sold
17.-	Marriage a la Mode by William Hogarth	Complete Set of Six Original Engravings	1745 (Heath Ed)	Sold
18.-	Martin Folkes Esqr. by William Hogarth	Original Etching & Engraving	1742 (Heath Ed)	Available
19.-	Moses Brought to Pharaoh's Daughter by William Hogarth	Original Engraving & Etching	1752 (Heath Ed)	Available
20.-	Pit Ticket: The Cockpit by William Hogarth	Original Engraving & Etching	1759 (Heath Ed)	Available
21.-	Satire on False Perspective by Luke Sullivan & William Hogarth	Original Etching & Engraving	1754 (Heath Ed)	Sold
22.-	Scholars at a Lecture by William Hogarth	Original Line Engraving & Etching	1736 (Heath Ed)	Sold
23.-	Shrimps! by Francesco Bartolozzi & William Hogarth	Original Stipple Engraving	1782	Sold
24.-	Simon Lord Lovat by William Hogarth	Original Etching	1746 (Heath Ed)	Sold
25.-	Southwark Fair by William Hogarth	Original Engraving & Etching	1733 (Heath Ed)	Sold
26.-	Taste in High Life by Samuel Phillips & William Hogarth	Original Stipple Engraving	1808 (John Boydell Ed.)	Sold
27.-	The Company of Undertakers by William Hogarth	Original Engraving & Etching	1736 (Heath Ed)	Sold
28.-	The Distrest Poet by William Hogarth	Original Engraving & Etching	1736 (Heath Ed)	Sold
29.-	The Five Orders of Perriwigs by William Hogarth	Original Engraving & Etching	1761 (Heath Ed)	Sold
30.-	The Invasion: France, Plate I by William Hogarth	Complete Set of Two Original Engravings (England & France)	1756 (Heath Ed)	Sold
31.-	The Invasion: England, Plate II by William Hogarth	Complete Set of Two Original Engravings (England & France)	1756 (Heath Ed)	Sold
32.-	The Laughing Audience by William Hogarth	Original Engraving & Etching	1733 (Heath Ed)	Sold
33.-	The Politician by John Keyse Sherwin & William Hogarth	Original Engraving & Etching	1775 (Heath Ed)	Sold
34.-	The Sleepy Congregation by William Hogarth	Original Engraving & Etching	1736 (Heath Ed)	Sold
35.-	The Times by William Hogarth	Complete Set of Two Original Engravings (Plate I & II)	1762 (Heath Ed)	Sold
36.-	Time Smoking a Picture by William Hogarth	Original Engraving	1761 (Heath Ed)	Sold
37.-	William Hogarth Painting of the Comic Muse by William Hogarth	Original Engraving	1764 (Heath Ed)	Sold

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Title:	Industry and Idleness: "The Fellow Prentices at their Looms: Plate 1" Industry and Idleness: "The Industrious Prentice Performing the Duty: Plate 2"
Artist:	Hogarth, William (London, 1697 - 1764)
Date:	1747 (Heath Edition 1822)
Medium:	Original Etching & Line Engraving
Publisher:	William Heath, London
Note:	William Hogarth: The name of William Hogarth requires little in the way of an introduction. He is the unquestioned father of England's rich tradition of satire and remains one of the most original and lively minds in the entire history of British art. Famous for his paintings, Hogarth's engravings are even more paramount: the imagery from The Harlot's Progress, Marriage a la Mode, The Four Stages of Cruelty, Four Prints of an Election, The Four Times of the Day, Industry and Idleness and a host of others are crucial to an understanding of eighteenth century art and culture. Yet Hogarth's art stretched beyond his time and his masterful engravings are as relevant to our society as they were to his.
	Training first as an engraver, Hogarth became an independent illustrator as early as 1720. In his spare time he studied painting techniques, notably under Sir James Thornhill. By 1730 he established himself as a portrait painter. Yet at the same time Hogarth began creating sets of anecdotal pictures which brilliantly satirized society and its activities. The first such set, A Harlot's Progress (1732), gained for Hogarth a strong and lasting national reputation. During the following decades he both painted and engraved individual works and sets of images which forged the cornerstone for English satirical art. Such great masters as Rowlandson, Gillray, Heath and Cruikshank followed in Hogarth's footsteps.
	Industry and Idleness: Plate 1; Paulson #168, Second and Final State.

	In The Fellow Prentices at their Looms, Plate One, William Hogarth portrays the two apprentices as they begin their journey on an entirely equal footing. Both begin at the same shop and under identical circumstances. Francis Goodchild, the Industrious apprentice, sits to the right. He is diligently at work upon his loom and beside him rests a well preserved copy of 'The Prentices Loom". To the left (and fast asleep) is the Idle apprentice, Thomas Idle. A cat plays with his working equipment. Symbols of his dissolute life already surround him -- a mug of ale from 'Spittle Fields', a pipe at rest on the motionless loom and a page from Moll Flanders tacked on the post above his head. This, of course, refers to Defoe's famous novel concerning a promiscuous serving girl. To the extreme right the master enters, cane in hand. His expression registers frustration with his idle apprentice. In the outside framework William Hogarth engraves symbols of the future. To the left we see a hangman's rope and manacles. To the right the sword of state and the mace of the city of London are delineated.
	Industry and Idleness: Plate 2; Paulson #169, Second and Final State.

	The second and third scenes outline the apprentices' attitudes towards religion. In The Industrious Prentice Performing the Duty of a Christian, Plate Two, Goodchild performs his religious duties in the same dedicated manner as his work. Besides him is the daughter of his master. To the left a pew opener sits with her back towards the ceremony. For the most part the congregation is attentive and well behaved. Only the snoring figure behind the industrious apprentice reminds us of William Hogarth's more biting studies of church life such as, The Sleepy Congregation and Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism. In its primary theme Industry and Idleness, is William Hogarth's most direct moral statement in series form. Its primary purpose is to illustrate the benefits of sincere and honest work and the ruinous path awaiting those who follow the opposite course. To this end Hogarth portrays the progress of two apprentices, Francis Goodchild and Thomas Idle. Their chosen paths and the consequences are chronicled in the twelve plates.
Raisonne:	Ronald Paulson, Hogarth's Graphic Works, London, Yale University Press, 1965.
Edition:	Plate 1; Paulson #168, Second and Final State.
Edition:	Plate 2; Paulson #169, Second and Final State.
Source:	Heath Edition, London (Industry and Idleness, Set of Twelve)
Size:	10 1/2 X 13 3/4 x 2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Price:	Sold (Complete set of twelve Engravings)
Condition:	Printed upon early nineteenth century wove paper and with large, full margins as published by William Heath in 1822. One should take note that Heath was the last printer to print directly from Hogarth's original engraved plates. All 'Hogarth' prints appearing after this date are merely copies of these original graphic works of art.
	These original impressions from the complete set of Industry and Idleness contain very faint foxing in the outer margins. There is no foxing within the actual image. Water staining is also apparent in the outer margins, but well away from the actual engravings. Else, These large and important Hogarth engravings are in good condition throughout.
Price:	Sold - The price is no longer available.
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