Drawing, print study (BM 1896,0710.16 1)

Finished drawing for Pl 7 of "Industry and Idleness" (1747), "The Idle 'Prentice return'd from Sea, and in a Garret with a common Prostitute"; interior in extreme state of decay, prostitute and Idle sitting on broken bed, she appraising an earring from a load of booty, he with raised hands, in background, cat falling down chimney. 1747
Pen and brown ink and grey and brown wash, over graphite, in part re-drawn in graphite, splashed with green colour

Verso: Powdered with pinkish-grey chalk and indented for transfer; a sketch of a reclining figure (?) in pen and brown ink