Idleness Collection

Rules to be Observed by a Victorian Family -- a typical summary of Victorian values, with advice including: Waste Not, Want Not; Do everything at its proper time; Be punctual, be regular

Fruits of Idleness - a young man has passed out from drinking too much alcohol. circa 1830s

Lord Mayors / Hogarth
Industry and Idleness - the Lord Mayors Procession

Heartsease or Love in idleness, Viola tricolor. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman

Weaving at Spitalfields, England, Industry and Idleness
Industry and Idleness by William Hogarth, showing weaving at Spitalfields, England, contrasting the discipline of one apprentice with the slovenly behaviour of another. Date: First published 1747

HOGARTH / INDUSTRY / IDLE 12
12. The industrious prentice Lord Mayor of London Date: 1747

HOGARTH / INDUSTRY / IDLE 6
6. The industrious prentice out of his time and married to his masters daughter Date: 1747

HOGARTH / INDUSTRY / IDLE 8
8. The industrious apprentice has grown rich and become Sheriff of London Date: 1747

Industry: The idle prentice punished
5. The idle prentice turnd away and sent to sea (final destination unknown). Date: 1747

HOGARTH / INDUSTRY / IDLE 2
2. The industrious prentice performing the duty of a christian Date: 1747

Dornford Yates
DORNFORD YATES (real name Cecil William Mercer) - popular author of The courts of idleness, Berry & co, And Berry came too and so on. Date: 1885 - 1960

Coffee / And Life
Coffee and Life; a pessimistic approach

HELL
Those who were guilty of idleness during their lifetimes are punished by being bitten by sharp-fanged serpents

Hogarth / Industry / Idle 10
10. The industrious prentice Alderman of London, the idle one impeach d before him by his accomplice

Hogarth / Industry / Idle 4
4. The industrious apprentice a favourite and entrusted by his master

Hogarth / Industry / Idle 3
3. The idle apprentice gambling in the churchyard during Divine Service

Hogarth / Industry / Idle 1
1. The fellow prentices at their looms

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