Art, literature & history
The Idle 'Prentice return'd from Sea & in a Garret with a common Prostitute
1747
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 26.5 × 34.8 cm (10 7/16 × 13 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1944.5.50
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Hogarth. The Idle 'Prentice return'd from Sea & in a Garret with a common Prostitute. 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_return%27d_from_Sea_%26_in_a_Garret_with_a_common_Prostitute,_1747,_NGA_30396.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 return'd from Sea & in a Garret with a common Prostitute — William Hogarth. 1747.
Medium: etching and engraving.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 26.5 × 34.8 cm (10 7/16 × 13 11/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1944.5.50. 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.