Tyburn
by William Hogarth
1747
Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Library, Sotheby 54 Box 100
"The idle 'prentice executed at Tyburn," plate 11 of Industry and Idleness
Tom Idle, sentenced to hang for theft and murder, is seated in a cart with his coffin, and John Wesley preaching repentence. The Newgate chaplain rides in a carriage ahead. A crowd clusters around the triple gallows of Tyburn. A wooden gallery provides seating. In the foreground a woman hawks a copy of "The last dying Speech & confession of Tho. Idle" and Tiddy Doll, the gingerbread seller, is to the right. Above her in a carriage are Mother Douglas drinking gin while her prostitutes handing drinks out interact with the crowd; to their right Tom's mother covers her face. In front center stands a butcher brandishing a judge's wig like a flag.
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