William Hogarth (1697-1764): 'Industry And Idleness', suite ...

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£250 - £350

William Hogarth (1697-1764): 'Industry And Idleness', suite of 12 engravings, 1747, comprising Plt 1. The Fellow Prentices At Their Looms; Plt 2. The Industrious Prentice Performing The Duty Of A Chrifton; Plt 3. The Idle Prentice At Play In The Churchyard During Divine Service; Plt 4. The Industrious Prentice A Favorite and Entrusted By His Master; Plt 5. The Idle Prentice Turned Away And Sent To Sea; Plt 6. The Industrious Prentice Out Of His Time And Married To His Master's Daughter; Plt 7. The Idle Prentice Returned From Sea And In A Garret With A Common Prostitute; Plt 8. The Industrious Prentice Grown Rich And Sheriff Of London; Plt 9. The Idle Prentice Betrayed And Taken In A Night Cellar With His Accomplice; Plt 10. The Industrious Prentice, Alderman of London, The Idle One Brought Before Him Impeached By His Accomplice; Plt 11. The Idle Prentice Executed At Tyburn; Plt 12. The Industrious Prentice Lord-Mayor Of London, plates 1-10 each plate impression approx. 27 x 35cm, on 5 sheets, plates 11 & 12 each plate impression approx 27.5 x 40.5cm, on separate landscape oriented sheets, seven sheets in total each sized 62 x 48cm; together with an original stipple engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi after William Hogarth, entitled 'Shrimps!', commissioned and published 1782 by Hogarth's widow, Mrs. Jane Hogarth, plate impression 27 x 21cm, sheet approx 62 x 48cm; plus a 1732 Hogarth etching depicting a chorus of singers rehearsing William Huggins' oratorio "Judith", plate impression 17.5 x 16.5cm, with one other etching above similar, both on one sheet approx 62 x 48cm (9) (E) £150-200