The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn (BM 1868,0822.1582 1)
Summary
Plate 11: the place of execution with, in the middle ground, Idle seated in a cart with his coffin and John Wesley exhorting him to repent, the Newgate chaplain in a carriage, the triple gallows, and a wooden gallery crowded with onlookers; in the foreground an unruly mob including a ragged woman selling a copy of "The last dying Speech & confession of Tho. Idle" and Tiddy Doll, the gingerbread seller. 1747
Etching and engraving
Date
1600 - 1700
Source
British Museum
Copyright info
Public Domain