The Diligent Pupil Gives Money to Musicians (plate 6)

The diligent apprentice Goodchild is no longer an apprentice but has become a partner in the business of his former master and has married his daughter. He distributes money and food to a group of musicians and beggars. In the background the Monument to the Great Fire of London, the monument for the fire of 1666. Below the image a cartouche with a text from Proverbs. Part of a series of twelve plates on the rise and fall of two apprentices, Francis Goodchild and Thomas Idle, after the original plates by William Hogarth from 1747.