2. Industry and Idleness, in twelve plates.[1] Mr. _Walpole_ observes, that "they have more merit in the intention than execution." At first they were printed off on very thin paper. Plate V. The scene is _Cuckold's Point_, below _London Bridge_. Plate VI. In a few first impressions, "_Goodchild_ and _West_" is written under the sign, instead of "_West_ and _Goodchild_." _Hogarth_ had inadvertently placed the name of the junior partner first. Some mercantile friend, however, pointing out the mistake, when as yet only a few copies were taken off, our artist corrected it, to avoid the criticisms of _Cheapside_ and _Cornhill_. In this plate is a figure of _Philip in the Tub_, a well-known beggar and cripple, who was a constant epithalamist at weddings in _London_, and had visited _Ireland_ and _The Seven Provinces_. The _French_ clergyman in Plate VIII. was designed for Mr. _Platell_, curate of _Barnet_. Plate XI. The scene is in a cellar of a noted house that went by the name of "The Blood Bowl House," from the various scenes of blood that were there almost daily exhibited, and where there seldom passed a month without the commission of a murder. _Blood Bowl-alley_ is down by the fishmonger's, near _Water-lane, Fleet-street_; and I am assured, that the house and event, that gave rise to the name, were there. In Plate XI. is _Tiddy Doll_, the well-known vender of gingerbread. Just behind him, in a cart, to bring away the body of the criminal, is his mother. Though her face is concealed, she is distinguished by her excess of sorrow, and the black hood she has worn throughout the foregoing representations of her. Plate XII. _Frederick_ Prince of _Wales_, and the Princess of _Wales_, in the balcony. The standards of the Blacksmiths' and Stationers' Companies appear in the procession. The flag, at the corner of one of the stands, belongs to the Pinners and Needlers. The hint for this series of prints was evidently taken from the old comedy of _Eastward-hoe_, by _Jonson, Chapman,_ and _Marston_, reprinted in _Dodsley's_ Collection of Old Plays. "The scenes of _Bedlam_ and the gaming-house," as Mr. _Walpole_ well observes, "are inimitable representations of our serious follies, or unavoidable woes; and the concern shown by the lord-mayor, when the companion of his childhood is brought before him as a criminal, is a touching picture, and big with humane admonition and reflection." The late comedian Mr. _James Love_ (otherwise _Dance_, and brother to the painter of that name) dramatized this series of prints; and Mr. _King_, now deputy-manager of _Drury-lane_, performed the character of the Good 'Prentice.