The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness Size:M: 50 x 40cm The top right hand view

The top right hand view is possibly a butchers shop

Army encampment in St James's Park

stands next to Alderman Wood on the left

in frame with Cap of Liberty

'A Member of the Corporation preparing for a City feast'

The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness Size:M: 50 x 40cm The top right hand view'The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness, 1747; the scene is a Spitalfields silk weaving shop, London. The industrious apprentice works busily while the idle apprentice has fallen asleep. The master enters, glares at the idle apprentice and threatens him with his stick. A page from Moll Flanders hangs above the head of the idle apprentice. Final state of the plate.