Finished drawing for pl 5 of "industry and idleness" (1747), "the idle 'prentice turn'd away and sent to sea"; a boat being rowed down the thames by a waterman smoking pipe, with idle 'making the cuckold's horns', a sailor pointing to a gallows on the shore, another sailor showing idle a lead (?), his mother sitting before him weeping, various shipping and line of windmills in background
brush drawing in grey wash, over graphite, indented for transfer. Date: between 1746 and 1747. Dimensions: Height: 217 mm; Width: 292 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Drawing, print study (BM 1896,0710.12 1)
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