The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn, William Hogarth, 1747

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; late impression printed in 1990 etching. Date: 1747. Dimensions: Height: 274 mm; Width: 400 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: John Wesley. Collection: British Museum. The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn (BM 1991,0126.39.11)