The idle 'prentice returned from sea..., plate VII of Industry and Idleness 1833 Product:Fine art poster Change Alley

Change Alley

Interior view of a women's ward at Middlesex Hospital in Mortimer Street

Figures dressed in fashionable and professional costume

which had operated between c1690 and c1760 just south of the future Waterloo Bridge

The idle 'prentice returned from sea..., plate VII of Industry and Idleness 1833 Product:Fine art poster Change Alley'The idle 'prentice returned from sea, and in a garret with a prostitute', plate VII of Industry and Idleness, 1833; the apprentice and prostitute occupy a dilapidated bed; behind is an open fireplace down which falls a cat bricks. The apprentice sits up terrified but his companion is unmoved. A rat scampers over the floor, spread with domestic utensils and other articles.