"The effects of Idleness and Industry, exemplified in the conduct of two fellow-'prentices. These twelve prints were calculated for the instruction of young people; and everything addressed to them is fully described in words as well as figures. Yet to foreigners a translation of the mottoes,[125] the intention of the story, and some little description of each print, may be necessary. To this may be added, a slight account of our customs--as boys being usually bound for seven years, etc. "Considering the persons they were intended to serve, I have endeavoured to render them intelligible, and cheap as possible.[126] Fine engraving is not necessary for such subjects, if what is infinitely more material, viz. character and expression, is properly preserved. Suppose the whole story were made into a kind of tale, describing in episode the nature of a night-cellar, a marrow-bone concert, a Lord Mayor's show, etc. "These prints I have found sell much more rapidly at Christmas than at any other season." 3. Jacobus Gibbs Architectus; W. Hogarth, _delin._; J. M'Ardell, _fecit_. Partly mezzotinto, partly graved. No date. 4. Ditto, engraved by Baron. 5. Ditto, by ditto. 6. Another copy, with the addition of "Architectus, A.M. and F.R.S.," was published 1750. Of the last print I have an impression where the background is completed, but nothing more of the head than the bare outline. This is a curiosity somewhat similar to a picture without a horse by Wouvermans. Besides these, there is a small profile of Gibbs in a circle, which I do not think Hogarth's,--at least it is uncertain. 7. Arms of the Foundling Hospital, printed on the tops of the indenture. 8. The same in a smaller size, employed as a vignette to _Psalms, Hymns, and Anthems_, and also to an account of the institution of the hospital, etc. Of the original pen-and-ink drawing there is a modern copy. 9. A Wooden Cut--headpiece to the _Jacobites' Journal_; a newspaper set up and supported by Henry Fielding. This print (of which there is a modern copy in aquatinta) was prefixed to six or seven of the earliest papers, and then set aside. Mine is dated "2d January 1747. No. 5." 1748. 1. View of Mr. Ranby's House at Chiswick; etched by Hogarth, without any inscription. Afterwards "published for Jane Hogarth," etc., 1st May 1781. 2. Hymen and Cupid; two figures, with the view of a magnificent villa in the distance. No inscription. This was engraved as a ticket for the _Masque of Alfred_, performed at Cliveden House before the Prince and Princess of Wales on the Princess Augusta's birthday. It was afterwards intended to be used as a receipt to the Sigismunda; on the earliest impressions, "£2, 2s." is usually _written_. 1749. The Gate of Calais; engraved by C. Mosely. The original picture is in the possession of the Earl of Charlemont.