The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness Size:M: 50 x 40cm The woman is dressed in

The woman is dressed in a plain white muslin high waisted dress

View of Old Bailey

Interior view of the west ante-room in Carlton House

Army encampment in St James's Park

The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness Size:M: 50 x 40cm The woman is dressed in'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.