IDLE AND INDUSTRIOUS APPRENTICE.

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Plate VIII.—Speaking of the disposition of a crowd in a picture, Mr. Gilpin says:—"I do not recollect having seen a crowd better managed than Hogarth has managed one in the last print of his 'Idle 'Prentice.' In combining the multifarious company which attends the spectacle of an execution, he hath exemplified all the observations I have made. I have not the print before me, but I have often admired it in this light; nor do I recollect observing anything offensive in it, which is rare in the management of such a multitude of figures."—Observation on the Wye, p. 123.