The Industrious 'Prentice out of his Time, & Married to his Master's Daughter, William Hogarth, 1747

Plate 6: wedding celebrations in fish street hill with a legless ballad seller and drummers and butchers playing 'rough music' with bones and cleavers outside the house of francis goodchild and his bride; a poor mother with a child on her back is given remains of the wedding breakfast; in the background the foot of the monument with its anti-roman catholic inscription. 1747 etching and engraving. Date: 1747. Dimensions: Height: 301 mm (sheet); Height: 262 mm; Width: 397 mm (sheet); Width: 343 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. The Industrious 'Prentice out of his Time, & Married to his Master's Daughter (BM 1868,0822.1577 1)