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The Idle 'Prentice betray'd by his Whore, & taken in a Night Cellar with his Accomplice
1747
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 26.4 × 34.7 cm (10 3/8 × 13 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1944.5.52
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Hogarth. The Idle 'Prentice betray'd by his Whore, & taken in a Night Cellar with his Accomplice. William Hogarth; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Hogarth,_The_Idle_%27Prentice_betray%27d_by_his_Whore,_%26_taken_in_a_Night_Cellar_with_his_Accomplice,_1747,_NGA_30398.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Idle 'Prentice betray'd by his Whore, & taken in a Night Cellar with his Accomplice — William Hogarth. 1747.
Medium: etching and engraving.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 26.4 × 34.7 cm (10 3/8 × 13 11/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1944.5.52. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.