Finished drawing for pl 11 of "industry and idleness" (1747), "the idle 'prentice executed at tyburn"; crowds and incidents, in centre woman crying a broadsheet of 'the last dying speech and confession of thomas fowler', spectators in carts and on stand to left, in mid-distance, coach of the 'ordinary' of newgate, followed by cart with idle reading prayer book and propped on coffin, troop of cavalry to right, gallows in distance
pen and black ink with grey wash, over graphite, and accidental (?) splash of bodycolour, indented for transfer
verso: powdered
grey chalk. Date: between 1746 and 1747. Dimensions: Height: 227 mm; Width: 388 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Print study, drawing (BM 1896,0710.25 1)
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