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Industry and Idleness: The Idle 'Prentice at Play in the Church Yard, During Divine Service
October 1747
William Hogarth (English, 1697-1764)
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Plate III

A black and white print of figures gathered around a tomb looking at coins. Behind them, a standing man with a baton is about to strike. Below, skulls and bones are on the ground
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  • Artist Name: William Hogarth (English, 1697-1764)
  • Title: Industry and Idleness: The Idle 'Prentice at Play in the Church Yard, During Divine Service
  • Date: October 1747
  • Medium: Ink on paper
  • Dimensions: 10 x 13-3/8 in. (25.4 x 34.0 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation
  • Accession Number: M.1979.67.44.G
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Art Foundation

Object Information

(Sale, 21 March 1968, New York, Sotheby’s, lot 145, to);
Norton Simon, donated 1979 to;
Norton Simon Art Foundation
  • Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 432 p. 297

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