The industrious apprentice a favourite..., plate IV of Industry and Idleness Hanover Terrace The guests raise their glasses

The guests raise their glasses to toast the health of the king and queen

holds back one of the bailiffs and profers a bag of money to bail the rake out

in the background

which accidentally took place in the Tower of London [menagerie] on the 3rd of December

'Umbrellas to Mend'

The industrious apprentice a favourite..., plate IV of Industry and Idleness Hanover Terrace The guests raise their glasses'The industrious apprentice a favourite, and entrusted by his master', plate IV of Industry and Idleness, 1747; the industrious apprentice stands with his master in the counting house. A porter enters, bearing rolls of cloth. Final state of the plate.