The idle 'prentice at play in the church yard...', plate III of Industry and Idleness 1747 Size:L: 100 x 80cm A tent has been erected

A tent has been erected and a group of figures gather around a fire on the ice

Also showing the River Thames and water vessels

Interior view of the grand staircase in Charterhouse

showing the area between Westminster and the Strand

With account of finding of body below

The idle 'prentice at play in the church yard...', plate III of Industry and Idleness 1747 Size:L: 100 x 80cm A tent has been erected'The idle 'prentice at play in the church yard during divine service', plate III of Industry and Idleness, 1747; The idle apprentice plays hustle cap with some pickpockets and a shoeblack on a tombstone. The parish beadle prepares to strike him with his cane.