The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn
Series: Industry and Idleness, Plate 11

The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn
Series: Industry and Idleness, Plate 11

Plate 11: the place of execution with, in the middle ground, Idle seated in a cart with his coffin and John Wesley exhorting him to repent, the Newgate chaplain in a carriage, the triple gallows, and a wooden gallery crowded with onlookers; in the foreground an unruly mob including a ragged woman selling a copy of "The last dying Speech & confession of Tho. Idle" and Tiddy Doll, the gingerbread seller.

William Hogarth (English, 1697 - 1764)

1747

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