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The Industrious 'Prentice Alderman of London,the Idle one brought before him & impea ch'd by his Accomplice
1747
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 26.5 × 35 cm (10 7/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1944.5.53
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Hogarth. The Industrious 'Prentice Alderman of London,the Idle one brought before him & impea ch'd by 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_Industrious_%27Prentice_Alderman_of_London,the_Idle_one_brought_before_him_%26_impea_ch%27d_by_his_Accomplice,_1747,_NGA_30399.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 Industrious 'Prentice Alderman of London,the Idle one brought before him & impea ch'd by his Accomplice — William Hogarth. 1747.
Medium: etching and engraving.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 26.5 × 35 cm (10 7/16 × 13 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1944.5.53. 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.