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Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth, With a Catalogue of His Works

Note 1 — CATALOGUE OF HOGARTH'S PRINTS.[1] (continued 2)

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The following description of Hogarth's design is copied from his own hand-writing: "Industry and Idleness exemplified in the conduct of two Fellow 'Prentices: where the one, by taking good courses, and pursuing points for which he was put apprentice, becomes a valuable man and an ornament to his country; the other, by giving way to idleness, naturally falls into poverty, and ends fatally, as is expressed in the last print. As the prints were intended more for use than ornament, they were done in a way that might bring them within the purchase of whom they might most concern; and, lest any print should be mistaken, the description of each print is engraved at top."

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