William Hogarth (1697-1764)

Industry and Idleness (1747)

“Industry and Idleness exemplified, in the conduct of the two Fellow-prentices: where the one, by taking good courses, and pursuing those points for which he was put apprentice, becomes a valuable man, and an ornament to his country: whilst the other, giving way to idleness, naturally falls into poverty and most commonly ends fatally, as is expressed in the last Print.” – William Hogarth