The Industrious 'Prentice out of his Time, & Married to his Master's Daughter, William Hogarth, between 1794 and 1812
Copy of 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; after hogarth in the same direction. Etching and engraving. Date: between 1794 and 1812. Dimensions: Height: 255 mm; Width: 363 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. The Industrious 'Prentice out of his Time, & Married to his Master's Daughter (BM 1978,U.3480.6)