The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness Size:XL: 100 x 75cm Fleet River

Fleet River

A satire on the Metropolitan Water Supply

with a cart

Some form of ceremony is taking place next to the fire in the countryside

View of the church and the churchyard

The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness Size:XL: 100 x 75cm Fleet River'The fellow 'prentices at their looms', plate I of Industry and Idleness, 1747; the scene is a Spitalfields silk weaving shop, London. The industrious apprentice works busily while the idle apprentice has fallen asleep. The master enters, glares at the idle apprentice and threatens him with his stick. A page from Moll Flanders hangs above the head of the idle apprentice. Final state of the plate.