Les deux apprentis devant leur metier a tisser la soie. Lapprenti serieux fait son travail avec application tandis que le paresseux sest assoupi. Planche 1 tiree dune serie de 12 gravures de William Hogarth (1697-1764); illustrateur britannique; intitulee Industry and Idleness; le Zele et la Paresse racontant la carriere de deux apprentis; 1747. City of London Libraries and Guildhall Art Gallery The fellow prentices at their looms; plate I of Industry and Idleness; 1747; the scene is a Spitalfields silk-weaving shop; London. The industrious apprentice works busily while the idle apprentice has fallen asleep.